Because social justice is another name for socialism.
November is “Social Justice Month” at Southern Connecticut State University and to celebrate, the school has created a “Syllabus for Racial Justice,” which provides a definition of “racial justice” that is eerily similar to socialism.
“The resources provided here are intended for faculty and staff to explore in an effort to strengthen their understandings of how systemic racism operates in our lives, communities, and classrooms, the university explains. “This syllabus is part of a larger endeavor for faculty to integrate racial justice pedagogies into our practice.”
The syllabus explains that the “working document” will receive multiple additions over the upcoming year and that the university hopes to develop a permanent online home for the material, accessible to the public. SCSU prefaces the material with a breakdown of a handful of social justice terms.
SCSU defines “racism” as “prejudice + power.”
The school goes on to define “white supremacy” as “an institutionally perpetuated system of oppression that manifests in our lives, communities, and schools,” and a “complex system of beliefs and behaviors rooted in systems designed to maintain the superiority of those designated white,” clarifying that these beliefs and behaviors include those that are “overt, subtle, unconscious, [and] conscious.”
Finally, the document clarifies its purpose by offering a definition for the term “racial justice”: “a process where power and resources are redistributed so that people of color have equal access, opportunities, and treatment leading to equitable outcomes for all. It is the disruption of our current systems which maintain white supremacy.”
That definition is markedly similar to the definition of socialism.
Socialism is “a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole,” according to Dictionary.com,