

I've had several conversations lately with various conservative folks, and they've seemed genuinely confused about what Social Justice is.* They're flummoxed by the breadth of "causes" and "agendas" that fall under the umbrella of "Social Justice", and they can't find a unifying conception that allows them to make sense of the Divide. Have any of y'all had success explaining this to people?



These are not folks that I'm trying to "convert" or whatever. The question that I'm trying to answer gets posed to me most often as:



"Person 1 does thing X, Person 2 does thing Y, yet they both say their working for 'Social Justice'? X and Y are different things, so what is Social Justice?"



* I know, I know. Saying "I don't recognize this thing, therefore it's nonsense" is a rhetorical position, and certainly some of the conservatives I have talked to are faking their ignorance. I am assuming that there are good faith questions, and those are the ones I'm trying to learn how to answer.

What is Social Justice? How would you give a brief explanation to a conservative?