Social justice -- is it still relevant in the 21st century? | Charles L. Robbins | TEDxSBU 

this video is nearly 7 years old and it feels so relevant today.... we really haven't changed much huh.... ouch :(

'The idea of social justice is that the State should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal' Frederich August von Hayek

I'm literally watching this video as an assignment from my teacher. We have a presentation on it it's tomorrow wish me luck.

It is harder to accept a perceived defect in others, than it is to forget the clear defect in ourselves. If you want equality and acceptance, work on that. God bless you all.

People need to start properly learning and getting informed about these various issues if there is going to be change. People can't discuss and debate topics they have no understanding or knowledge of. The bigger problem is that this country has a way of making its people feel like they know more than they actually do. When it comes to discussions between people, a majority either use or fall prey to the many kinds of persuasive fallacies like flawed arguments, flawed design of argument, or flawed evidence in arguments.

Wow, this video is 8 years old and yet nothing has changed. In fact I feel like modern feminism got worse somehow. A lot of children are still dying to gun violence, and a lot of men and women are stuck in abusive relationship. What hurts the most is that nothing mentioned in this video has changed for the better, everyone just moves on once something big happens. I'm a student needing to look for a video to write a reflection and when I listened to this I just feel sadder. Man Humanity is just so screwed right now.

Time to talk about taking personal responsibility instead of my rights my rights my rights.... if people took responsibility for each other we would all feel good. My rights are others responsibilities and vice versa

social justice: justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. "individuality gives way to the struggle for social justice"

2/3 Of american families have guns in their homes....and most of them are illegal? Where is that stat from?

Within the first few seconds "Working at a university..." Ok, so I know where this guy stands.

Great talk, Thanks.

The comment section tells that people can not take criticisms.

Half the harm that is done in this world is do to people you want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or the justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think we'll of themselves.

It is an unfortunate fact that this subject and the content of this video are too high brow for majority of the commenters.

Social Justice is simply takeover of private property on large scale and back to slavery system. What's the difference is between Justice and Social Justice ? The same like betwen a chair and electric chair.

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I read this in a novel (I think ) For social justice, work, affordable housing, good unespensive Health care. Have invisible brigades block crucial infrastructure (train tracks as an example) to promote claims. Leave funny looking but harmless parcels...

man this guy proves that wisdom doesnt come with age

_"Cosmic justice is not simply a higher degree of traditional justice, it is a fundamentally different concept. Traditionally, justice or injustice is characteristic of a _*_process._*_ A defendant in a criminal case would be said to have received justice if the trial were conducted as it should be, under fair rules and with the judge and jury being impartial. After such a trial, it could be said that "justice was done"-regardless of whether the outcome was an acquittal or an execution. Conversely, if the trial were conducted in violation of the rules and with a judge or jury showing prejudice against the defendant, this would be considered an unfair or unjust trial-even if the prosecutor failed in the end to get enough jurors to vote to convict an innocent person. In short, traditional justice is about impartial processes rather than either results or prospects._ _Similar conceptions of justice or fairness extend beyond the legal system. A "fair fight" is one in which both combatants observe the rules, regardless of whether that leads to a draw or to a one-sided beating. Applying the same rules of baseball to all meant that Mark McGwire hit seventy home runs while some other players hit less than ten. The "career open to talents" or "a level playing field" usually means that everyone plays by the same rules and is judged by the same standards. Again, if the process itself meets that standard, then no matter what the outcome, "you had your chance." But this is not what is meant by those people who speak of "social justice." In fact, rules and standards equally applicable to all are often deliberately set aside in pursuit of "social justice." Nor are such exceptions aberrations. The two concepts are mutually incompatible._ _What "social justice" seeks to do is to eliminate undeserved disadvantages for selected groups. ... This is often done in disregard of the costs of this to other individuals or groups-or even to the requirements of society as a whole. When one considers a society such as Sri Lanka, where group preferences initiated in the 1950s led to decades of internal strife, escalating into bitter civil war with many atrocities, it is not purely fanciful to consider that other societies may become more polarized and contentious-to everyone’s ultimate detriment-by similar schemes of preferential treatment for one segment of society."_ - The Quest For Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell

This talk is long on complaints and short on proposed solutions. I would be interested more in hearing how this administrator would go about solving these problems.

who else is here for uni/school/college

"Every individual has a choice to make - you can either stand with me and fight for social justice, or you can stay on the sidelines silently supporting the systems that perpetuate the inequality, violence, and poverty that plague our world." So there are only two things to choose from. What a complex and nuanced worldview. Tell me more about how great of a communist you are.

love it

Social Justice isn't justice. It doesn't care about justice or the truth

Can someone provide a link to these statistics.

He keeps changing subjects about social justice

It’s interesting we’re not focusing on male upbringing, and changing the aspects of what we see as male.

The entire time he spewed facts and "did you know". What has he done? What are the solutions? How can people create action. Cause everything he said is stuff I've seen on my fb feed already

Social Justice has no place in a free society.

is funny how he thinks social justice will bring better opportunities to populations that have been historically in disadvantage, when actually is freedom what achieves that goal for them.

So when do they get to the abusing part

is there anyone who can help me in my homework in criticizing the ideas of liberty and justice

Push decency and respect!!!! Too quote Shapiro, "Why is there more men in prison? Are the police officers sexist against males? You have funnymentals, you make up statistics to fit your talking point. There is no north for Social Justice.... There is decency and you are trying to control everyone tolerance and definition of decency.

Someone drop a time in the video plz

Probably the only part I agree with him is women don’t have the same rights as men but only outside the USA . That’s it

That was incredible, what a great public speaker.

actually the Equal Pay Act of 1963 GUARANTEES there's no wage gap. there is an EARNINGS gap but it's not the same thing. The wage gap insists that women get paid less for the same work. the earnings gap clarifies that women (on average) make different life choices than men do. Men tend to put much more effort into their careers, work more dangerous jobs, take more risks with their jobs and are more likely to ask for raises and promotions. The data that the wage gap myth shows is very misleading and unfortunately a lot of people tend to misinterpret it

I am absolutely for social justice but I take those statistics with a grain of salt. I heard that the college campuses statistics he is quoting have been exaggerated? I haven't actually seen them though so I could be wrong. There's going to be some bias with any study, but are they taking that into account?

wow, reading these comments is so disappointing :(

Most of this is just throwing out statistics, some of which are questionable. For example, the "gender income gap" has been taken apart and debunked so many times now, I've lost count.

Oh my where to start, fix the world, fix a country, fix people...... Problem propblem. Solution "social justice" who ever gets to enforce it, they become like a god.

Social Justice Warrior! I'm sure the downtrodden are thanking their lucky stars that this fellow is fightin' the good fight! With this guy on your side, social justice will prevail!

Social Justice never was relevant, never will be.

I’m in class right now

I can stand on a stage and say this is wrong, that's wrong.

I have to watch this ughhh

in defence of this guy, he did say "I view everything through a social justice lens". This is usually how scholars excuse their one-sided perspective on things. He is practically stating that he is not going to be very reflected, and that he is locked to one perspective.

It was never relevant.

Social injustice? I hate that I am growing old...somebody has got to give me money to stop me from growing old. How about giving me some taxpayers money to stop me from getting old. Bah humbug! Humans are animals and life is not fair.

I'm losing alot of respect for Ted with alot of these speakers. They have a right to speak but let's hear the other side please.

Can't take him seriously.

Social Justice would surely win the world. Great speech.👏👏👏👏👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊

It's a shame that TED took such a turn in the Far Left direction. Two years later looking at a lot of these videos you can see why they have lost so much support, very radical ideas.

I’m being serious

I wonder if this guy is talking about the USA or a foreign country? TED talks has really lowered there standards for the speakers they ask to speak.

1 in 5....bull. There are REAL stats out there

Of course. Social justice is always relevant. It's the basic idea behind Marxism/Communism.

accidental murder...is this guy high. Murder is not an accident

Social Justice will never exist because we have more people working against it then for it. Hatred is the main reason why life for all will not be equal. We rather keep each other down than help one another.

this guy is soooo convincing. NOT. he throws out a bunch of anecdotes that can all be debunked with real stats

Get rid of the strong and breed the weak.

Whats congress? Is it like palamen

Thanks for further diminishing my opinion of humans. I'm gonna go live the lions.

There is something very wrong here. You can propose a lot of definitions of social justice, but so much of them are very bad. The man here give a good example of a bad definition, I think that is his problem. With a good definition you can do a lot of things in this field: please follow authors like Rawls, Dworkin, Agnes Heller, Bruce Ackerman and Brian Barry.

This guy is delusional. Identify based beliefs and politics. Everything that is wrong with modern education. I'd hate to be at a university this guy had anything to do with running.

This guy better hope Thomas Sowell doesn't see this garbage.

As long as abortion is a thing, there can be no justice

Check your facts.

no

This talk is a big oof.

Social Justice is communist slang 🤣🤣🤣

If this video hadn't aged well, then the dislikes are coming from SJW's.

This video should be called: how to lose all your brain cells in less than 20 minutes

i thought it was perfectly stated - it was everything that needed to be spoken ,why isn't he not running for president

I wonder what is his stance is on the second ammendment lol

You need to check your facts.

I'm fkn scared now! My partner is going to assault me. Holy shiz!

Until social justice isnt used like that rabid pitbull that woofs and shouts down its opponents, And cower at the site of dissent. Not my cup of tea.

Literally all of those "facts" have been disproven

Bring Ben Shapiro, he will make this clown go back to his safe space

Falsehood after falsehood from this “expert”.

this was so bad lol

No. Saved ya decades of suffering.

He should debate Ben Shapiro and get destroyed

Go watch 'What is social justice' by PragerU.

Soo much bullshit.

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Social justice is the foundation of everything.

So many words - so little substance. Wasted 6 minutes of my life :(

Legit, all of these claims have been debunked. I'm only watching cause my SJW prof from TTU made me watch this. Dont waste your time.

So much bullshit!

Ok be honest who else is hunting for SJW's

Yeesh, what a mangina.

News Flash: It was never relevant

500 republicans disliked this

Get a real job!