Everything It Touches

“Social justice” holds you responsible for the actions of others with whom you’ve never had any contact, and had no influence over. It’s the opposite of justice.
Despite the term being used frequently and ostentatiously, clear definitions are rarely volunteered. That’s the first warning sign.
As you say, “social justice” entails treating people not as individuals but as mascots and categories. And judging a person and their actions based on which Designated Victim Group they supposedly belong to and then assigning various exemptions and indulgences depending on that notional group identity and whatever presumptuous baggage can be attached to it, with varying degrees of perversity. And conversely, assigning imaginary sins and “privilege” to someone else based on whatever Designated Oppressor Group they can be said to belong to, however fatuously, and regardless of the particulars of the actual person.
Which is to say, “social justice” is largely about judging people tribally, cartoonishly, and by different and contradictory standards, based on some supposed group identity, which apparently – and conveniently – overrides all else. It’s glib, question-begging and instantly pernicious. Morality for the mediocre. As you say, viewed rationally, it’s something close to the opposite of justice. And yet, among our self-imagined betters, it’s the latest must-have.
In much the same way, “equity” – another word favoured by both educators and campus activists – is defined, if at all, only in the woolliest and most evasive of terms. And which, when used by those same educators and activists, seems to mean something like “equality of outcome regardless of inputs.” Inputs including diligence and punctuality. And that isn’t fair either.

What was the original tweet?

What was the original tweet?
This one, I think.

Finally, bold action has been taken to get these weapons of terror off the street.

Loud SJWs are a problem, but the silence of the 93.7% of non SJW students is greater.

Speaking of ruining everything it touches, Kate Smith becomes an unperson for having sung a song with doubleplusungood wrongthought lyrics eighty years ago.
Also, via Ace, Wokelahoma !, the musical “reimagined” for the millennial generation with all the cliches one would expect.

Williams College, where annual tuition is $57,000.

It is so frustrating. It’s so tiring … to be here.

For this problem, obvious solution is obvious.
Meanwhile, here in the civilized states, today is still Confederate Memorial Day and amazingly with nary a protest.

Diversity is our strength!
Taken at face value, “diversity” is the belief that the less we have in common, and feel we have in common, the happier we will be.

fried chicken
Isn’t that a racist stereotype?

If I understand the Williams incident, the Council unanimously approved the black students’ budget request 15 minutes BEFORE the protest began. This qualifies as a win-win.
It’s like one of those fake bar fights in a low budget western movie. The bad guy anticipates the fake hit by the hero and falls back on the poker table before the blow lands.

Regarding Mao-ling psychodrama, Charles Murray has a modest proposal.
Previously, and very much related.

This is what the students were protesting and Charles Murray was referring to: An active member of the Polish resistance to communism speaking about resisting totalitarianism. And yet the students think they’re the heroes here. Appalling.

I’ve never seen SJW ideology make an adherent a better person.
I suppose it’s a kind of cheap grace, which is always popular:

“If I regurgitate these attitudes and incantations, and if I stipulate my pronouns, then I become A Very Good Person Indeed, and therefore statusful. Which saves a lot of time and effort, frankly. And being instantly transformed into A Very Good Person Indeed, I am entitled to defame and browbeat and bully, to denounce books that I haven’t read, and to remind others of my Very Good Person status in all kinds of exciting ways. Like needlessly harassing people and blocking doorways, and putting polite and elderly scholars in fear of their safety. And if anyone hurts my feelings – say, by drawing attention to my ignorance, hypocrisy and pretension – my basic moral emptiness – then I can denounce them as opposing all of the glorious causes that I now champion and pretend to embody, so heroically.”

Something along those lines.
And given the kinds of personalities typically attracted to such things, I doubt that being a better person was ever on the cards.

Why does every proposal to SAVE HUMANITY!! include chains?
Professor Bostrom’s ideas are just a teensy bit scary:

He also suggests we lean into mass government surveillance, outfitting every person with necklace-like “freedom tags” that can hear and see what they’re doing at all times.
These tags would feed into “patriot monitoring stations,” or “freedom centers,” where artificial intelligences monitor the data, bringing human “freedom officers” into the loop if they detect signs of a black ball.

Right. I’m guessing ‘1984’ is filed in the ‘practical advice & self help’ section of the professor’s bookcase.

Tim Newman is in his wheelhouse again.

“If someone says, ‘My arm hurts,’ we typically grant credence to their claims.
Which is why we also accept it when people say “I’m Napoleon Bonaparte!” and put them in charge of France.
Which might actually be a good thing currently, but that’s beside the point:-).

Got a lot of responses while I was away 😀
They do bang on, the heathens. Unlike me, soul of brevity that I am.
I was objecting only to the ‘never’ and ‘always’…
No quarrel there.
I’m just noting that it inadvertently actually manages to do good on rare occasions.
Given the role of unintended consequences in all human endeavour, I’m sure it must from time to time. Not unlike spitefully shitting in the village’s only water supply and two weeks later hearing that the local child molester is among the people feeling unwell.
I exaggerate, of course. But not, I think, enormously.

“Aren’t all cyclists into BDSM, of a sort?”
Genius, Tim.

The Swedish moose migration?
Are we talking about Greta Thunberg?

“When I decided that I wanted to take hormones to feminise my body, the last thing I wanted to do was to go in front of a psychologist to justify my decision,” Florence Ashley, a transfeminine bioethicist
Ah! So the opiod-addict is the one writing the paper on why medical professionals should just take his word that “my arm hurts” and hand over the drugs … cuz trust or something. Yeah, no bias here.

…medical professionals should just take his word that “my arm hurts” and hand over the drugs…
One would think a “bioethicist” might actually be required to study how medicine is practiced, but maybe not. Yeah, the hell with that whole history, exam, test, nonsense, waste of time and money. “Hey doc, I’m feeling my feminine side today”, “No problem, Mac, here is a bottle of estrogen for you. Next !”

… someone with a leftist point of view who nevertheless tolerates other opinions…

No idea at all why this lot would be opposed to seeing a shrink, none at all.
It’s a mystery to me, too.

This is why feminism will eventually die off… woman are biologically evolved to attract men and vice versa. There is nothing more ugly to a man than a vitriolic feminist woman in all her putridity. The article you posted about the restaurant with the male hating tax is a microcosm of this fact.

“Aren’t all cyclists into BDSM, of a sort?”
No.
I cycle comfortably, clad conservatively, affording neither physical nor aesthetic pain to myself or others.