Letter to the editor: Social justice is opposite of justice

After years of hearing the term “social justice,” you might think you understand the term. I believe we can now definitively say that the term means whatever the “woke” mob wants it to mean. One thing is for certain: It has nothing to do with justice.

Taking the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the “social justice” advocates demanded that the teenager be found guilty of murder, even after video and witness testimony indicated that his claim of self-defense at the very least created reasonable doubt. Evidence be damned; “social justice warriors” demand a guilty verdict. Why? Because the media narrative of the shootings painted Rittenhouse as a white supremacist and militia member, although the investigation into the shootings showed no evidence of those things. “Social justice” isn’t concerned about facts.

In contrast, when Darrell Brooks intentionally drove his SUV into a crowd of paradegoers in Waukesha, Wis., I think the “social justice” crowd demanded the story be ignored to the extent possible. Why? Because Brooks was a Black man with a long criminal record whose social media posts indicate a hatred for white people? “Social justice” demands a racist Black man killing six white people be thought of first as a victim of “white oppression”?

“Social justice” isn’t concerned about facts. Or justice.

Richard Byers

Greensburg