Is Social Justice Just? with Robert Whaples

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Wake-Forest University’s
Professor of Economics, Robert Whaples.

Professor Whaples recently edited and published a book of essays by
accomplished academics that is called Is Social Justice
Just? The book includes a forward by the incisive commentator
Jordan Peterson. Professor Whaples noted that part and parcel of
the social justice movement (SJM) is the rejection of free trade,
capitalism – which SJM counts as the source of racism -- and the
market economy, the very things that have long ensured general
prosperity in the United States. The SJM is gradually eroding
national confidence in the just-mentioned items, and are intent on
building socialism applied by a national government rule the people
form the top down. The SJM and their goal of “equity” are designed
to pick winners and losers in business as well as in individuals.
Equity in regard to people means, of course, means to produce the
outcomes the SJM wants to achieve, no matter whether the winners
they pick to crown have any obvious merit in terms of character,
education, responsible behavior, competitiveness, and experience.
In terms of businesses, the winners will come in the business areas
they support, which of course rules out such producers of
well-paying jobs for the middle-and-blue collar classes; think of
fracking, pipeline-construction, and energy exploration and
development, for example. The SJM is an engine that has the
potential to destroy America’s economy and social amity via racism,
envy, and misinformation. The road to eliminating SJM’s the main
products – chaos, culture wars, racism, crime, and socialism – is
to restore the primacy of the jobs-and-prosperity producers of free
trade, capitalism, and the market economy, and to recreate the
education system for all Americans by creating charter schools and,
as important, by allowing federal educational funding follow the
student to whatever school he or she chooses to attend. These ideas
are commonsense and tried-and-true, and they help to answer such
question as:

how to do social justice wrong with the poison of resentment,
envy, and ignorance;

how to do social justice right with the insights of
philosophers and theologians;

how to respect people’s rights and liberties without
sacrificing true equality;

and how to reform flawed public policies that just make
everything worse. (points are from the books' review on Amazon)

--Professor Whaples book is: Is Social Justice Just?
The volume was published by the Independent Institute in
May, 2023, and is available at Amazon and other booksellers.
--Professor Whaples also is a senior member of the Independent
Institute, and the editor of its journal the Independent
Review.
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