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Originally Posted by Gin 'n Tonic
To be fair Diego, every side has those particular phrases that they've adopted as their own. It means as much as the left talking about 'social justice' - whatever the hell that means.
I think there is a difference. The right pretty much drives the tone of the debate, which is the problem imo, and using guises for their rigged market, plutocratic economics such as 'free market' is completely misleading. It's all well and good Milton Friedman et al waxing lyrical about free market economics, but when these pricks legislating pretend they subscribe to the ideology and that we operate in such a system, it's to all our disadvantage to accept what they say as true, which so many people do.
Talking about 'social justice', I agree, is another nebulous term, but it's not the same veil behind which certain individuals operate to the detriment of the rest, and when it is, it's for right wing ideological reasons. Hmm I feel I'm getting into a quagmire here... But we have the evidence of reality in front of us to kind of get to grips with the meaning. Of course it's completely subjective, but I doubt most people agree that inequality - the root of the issue - is justifiable on the kind of scale we are experiencing. From that point you can go in many directions as to what constitutes 'social justice', but it stems from inequality and I think any sane person can see that.
They also do the same with other 'lefty' terms. Check the definition of 'socialism' you'll get across America. It's nothing to do with what Marx advocated. How convenient it was for the West that Trotsky and Stalin called themselves 'socialists'.
So, I do agree that jargon is used on all fronts, but it's the purpose of its use that concerns me.
F knows.. I feel I'm losing my point here. Perhaps the difference is that we do have huge inequality, so fighting for 'social justice' is easy to place under that, while we don't have a 'free market', yet it is that which the dominating force uses to mask its actual function.
Are you lost? I am.