More Jackbooted Thuggery As Protests Turn Violent At NYU

[Neo-Scholastic]

The instant you add the qualifier, social, it isn't really justice anymore. True justice doesn't respect status, allegiance, or group membership. Justice should favor neither the rich nor the poor. It should favor neither the leader nor the outcast. Justice must be impartial and never qualified.

Social justice is the fair and just relation between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity and social privileges. In Western as well as in older Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive what was their due from society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice

Given the above definition I have no problem with social justice.

That's not how it plays out though. SJWs typically are advocating deference by demographics. As for the definition above, who assigns those societal roles or decides what is due to one group from another? It seems that SJWs are happy to tell other people what they owe to others based on their definitions of 'privilege' and 'victim status'.

And that's the problem. Justice is an individual case-by-case thing. You can't group people together (except in very narrowly specified class-action lawsuits) as if everyone in that group is equally deserving of compensation or equally responsible to distribute. That's the opposite of justice.