Elites, Tyrants and Nazism
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:41pm 635 viewsWalter Williams penned an insightful essay on the bloody history of ‘social justice’. This topic has been on my radar since the English faculty at St. Joe’s University attempted to trump up racial tensions among students in the name of social justice.
The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for “social justice.” It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans, like many of today’s Americans, who would have cringed at the thought of genocide, who built the Trojan horse for Hitler to take over.
You want a good look at what social justice brings to humanity, check out: The Gulag archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Not sure this book is part of the curriculum at St. Joe’s University.
College students schooled in the liberal theology of our public education system stand and cheer the exploits of Mao, Castro, Chavez, and Stalin while voting for a president who had a domestic terrorist ghost write his autobiography.
Yep, Bill Ayers, police bomber and champion of social justice that requires the holocaust of millions of Americans who disagree with his view of ‘social justice’.
Oh yeah, chains you can believe in.
Combination of factors:
1) Dead certainty that they (and only they)possess the truth.
2) Coercion is an acceptable means to spread “truth.”
The two play off each other.
Their certainty justifies the coercion – those who oppose them are, by definition, evil or ignorant. Eliminate the former and benevolently carry the latter to the promised land – “someday, they’ll thank us.”
Meanwhile, opposition to the coercion is written as opposition to truth, which must be suppressed (in part by reaffirmation of the ‘truth’).