What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it?

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I think one of the problems that we -- liberals -- get into sometimes is comparing oppression as f it were a competition. You can clearly come up with counter examples to everything in my previous paragraph, and then I could do the same, ad infinitum. But it's not a competition. Saying "don't let economic justice interfere with social justice" seems, to me at least, no different than saying "don't let feminism interfere with my racial justice" or "don't let GLBTQ rights interfere with my feminism."

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My thoughts

*I for one am concerned with all issues of those of us that are marginalized. I don't see it as competition it is about all marginalized groups working with each other. This is not about one it is about all of us standing together AS one. Do you think the women's march was just about women? I was in Boston and there were men and boys, uncles, fathers, LGBT and BLM walking with us. Unity and solidarity for a cause.*

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There are, indeed, people out there who believe that their particular social justice interest outweighs all others, and I would be lying if I didn't say that socialist-types tend to harp on economic issues. However, I also think it's unfair to then try and separate that issue from the others. Economics are part of the intersection, and it seems like many people would prefer to ignore economics in favor of whatever their "pet" issue is ("pet issue" is an insulting term, but I can't come up with anything better right now), and vice versa. We can't let extremists from either or any liberal extreme divide us.

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Me:
Social and Economic are two very different topics. They are not one in the same.


You said...

"Economics are part of the intersection, and it seems like many people would prefer to ignore economics in favor of whatever their "pet" issue is ("pet issue" is an insulting term, but I can't come up with anything better right now), and vice versa."

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Me:

Social Justice and equality is a 'pet issue'? I think you should have chosen your words wisely and you did not. You admit it is an insulting term and it is! Yet you use it here about marginalized people.

Miriam's Dictionary:

Definition of pet
1
a :  a pampered and usually spoiled child
b :  a person who is treated with unusual kindness or consideration :  darling
2
:  a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pet

**************I am going to say here, our concerns about racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are not now or ever have been pet issues.*************