Where is this social justice movement coming from? Do you ever go keyboarding on the internet looking for one specific thing and uncover something related and much bigger? When it comes to this festering growth movement of ‘social justice’ as we are witnessing throughout the country, one must ask what is the genesis. We saw some demands surface after Ferguson and Baltimore. Between those two protests and legal investigations, the White House launched a 21st Century Policing Mandate. But how was this mandate conceived? Ah, seems we need to hop over to New York and that interesting building called the United Nations.
So, it is reasonable to consider the BLM movement is well funded and not only has made it’s way onto Elm Street, it is also taking a place onto network television, where we are forced to see it where the largest TV audiences merge, NFL football.
Are there some connections or collaboration going on here? It cant be proven, however this is a time you can be the judge as this appears to have history and will be with us for years to come.
There is a training program. There are countless issues that do need to be addressed and this movement does have valid reasons that deserve attention. The question is are all components being addressed including the true root causes?
Related reading and timeline: Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement
This is a long United Nations document, almost 160 pages, but to help out the reader, begin at document page 11.
Circa 2006:
The application of social justice requires a geographical, sociological, political
and cultural framework within which relations between individuals and groups can
be understood, assessed, and characterized as just or unjust. In modern times, this
framework has been the nation-State. The country typically represents the context
in which various aspects of social justice, such as the distribution of income in a
population, are observed and measured; this benchmark is used not only by national
Governments but also by international organizations and supranational entities such
as the European Union. At the same time, there is clearly a universal dimension
to social justice, with humanity as the common factor. Slaves, exploited workers
and oppressed women are above all victimized human beings whose location matters
less than their circumstances. This universality has taken on added depth and
relevance as the physical and cultural distance between the world’s peoples has
effectively shrunk. In their discussions regarding the situation of migrant workers,
for example, Forum participants readily acknowledged the national and global dimensions
of social justice.
Social justice is treated as synonymous with distributive justice, which again is often
identified with unqualified references to justice, in the specific context of the activities
of the United Nations, the precise reasons for which may only be conjectured.
In its work, for reasons that will be examined in chapter 5, the United Nations has essentially
from the beginning separated the human rights domain from the economic
and social domains, with activities in the latter two having been almost exclusively
focused on development. Issues relating to the distributive and redistributive effects
of social and economic policies—issues of justice—have therefore been addressed
separately from issues of rights, including those inscribed in the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The unfortunate consequences of
this dissociation must be acknowledged. To support the concept of social justice is
to argue for a reconciliation of these priorities within the context of a broader social
perspective in which individuals endowed with rights and freedoms operate within
the framework of the duties and responsibilities attached to living in society. Notwithstanding
the implied associations between social justice, redistributive justice,
and justice as a more general concept, the fact is that the explicit commitment to
social justice has seriously deteriorated; over the past decade, the expression has
practically disappeared from the international lexicon and likely from the official language
of most countries. The position will be taken here that the United Nations
must work to try to restore the integrity and appeal of social justice, interpreted in
the contemporary context as distributive justice.
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This part is chilling just considering the concept:
2.1 National sovereignty and the right of intervention
The Forum noted that on two recent occasions, force had been used against States
Members of the United Nations without the formal approval of the Security Council
and outside the provisions of chapter VII of the Charter.10 Even prior to these events,
the “right of intervention”, legitimized by the overriding need to protect human
rights and in particular to prevent genocide, had been openly and vigorously debated
in international circles. Today, it is generally agreed that the principles of respect for
national sovereignty and non-interference in the domestic affairs of a State can be
legitimately suspended to address unchecked and unpunished violations of basic
human rights and fundamental freedoms. Intolerance for such violations represents
a heightening of the human consciousness and real progress, and is a necessary
step in the building of a true world community. Vexing questions arise, however,
with regard to the type of legal regime needed to govern this right of intervention.
