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Fifth Column
The Opportunity Gap - Social Injustice defined by the NYT, where else?
2012-07-11
Over the past few months,
... leading up to the election...
writers from Charles Murray to Timothy Noah have frantically produced alarming work on the growing bifurcation of American society confirming what Karl Marx referred to as the Law of Increasing Poverty. Now the eminent Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and his team
(if gov't funding holds out)
are publishing research that's more horrifying.
Simply horrifying I tell you. We really are doomed.
While most social justice studies look at inequality of outcomes among minority adults and help us understand how America is
totally racist and
coming apart,
Ruined I tell you, we're bloody DOOMED!
Putnam's graduate assistant groupies were directed to examine inequality of opportunities among children.
.... rips at your heart strings does it not, those children?
They
(fully born, upright primate children)
help us understand what the country will look like in the decades ahead.
...should we have that long.
The quick answer? More divided than ever.
but you knew where this was going. All once again pointing to "The Rich Get Rich", a line from the 1921 hit song Ain't We Got Fun.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  "Anyone that would quote Marx in anything but a negative way shows themselves the fool."

-I 100% agree, but somehow left-tards and supposedly educated college professors do this w/disturbing regularity.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2012-07-11 15:47  

#5  The problem we have no is we've created a welfare system that is closer to a hammock than a safety net and regulated most entry level jobs out of the equation so they've gone offshore or been taken over by illegals. The combination all but ensures poverty and drug rates increase while those that stay in the work force gain ground.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-07-11 14:42  

#4  "Karl Marx referred to as the Law of Increasing Poverty"

If one understand Marxism and doesn't just parrot the quotes you'd understand that is what Marxism does to a society. It increases poverty. Anyone that would quote Marx in anything but a negative way shows themselves the fool.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-07-11 14:40  

#3  The Tyranny of the recipient (to steal a phrase - npi) is alive and well.

I can think of few bigger social injustices than the lie promulgated by Statists to their un-washed masses about having some right to equal economic results under the law.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2012-07-11 11:41  

#2  Divided into the taxed and the tax-eaters.

Who is being oppressed here??? It's the taxed! With the current tax system "Social justice" is an inversion of justice whereby you are fined for creating wealth and doing things others value!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-07-11 10:56  

#1  So, I should consider it 'social injustice' because being short, small and slow I'll never qualify for an NBA player salary? Was it 'social injustice' that my draft number came up 97 while the ladies of my year group had none? Can we play the 'victimhood' game instead of dealing with life as its been in all of human history, like dealing with 'elites' who want to define and impose their 'order' on the rest of us with whatever excuse they can conjure up.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-07-11 10:52  

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