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Social Justice and Activism
Social justice is as general and functional fair distribution of natural laws that favor all person, such laws must ignore the “basis of gender, sexuality, religion, political affiliations, age, race, belief, disability, location, social class, socioeconomic circumstances, or other characteristic of background or group membership" (Toowoomba Catholic Education). Social Justice represents the sense of fairness based on each person’s idea of justice. Hence, the movements around it can more vapid while other can create a havoc in society.
In a society infested with crooked ideologies and selfish leaders; “social justice shows some humaneness in the world, even if the world systems are usually too inhuman or too Non- …show more content…

One of those small revolutions is by the “Wasichu” Aaron Huey. He lived in a native American community to comprehend the injustice these people are living. As he opens his TedTalk he said “We are at a private school in the American West, sitting in red velvet chairs with money in our pockets. And if we look at our lives, we have indeed taken the best part of the meat.” He compared the people who were listening to him to the native Americans and their struggle. By placing himself as a representative of this people—which most likely will never be heard by people the same social standards as those in the audience—his doing a social justice act. Another small, but impactful act of social activism is by Deborah Tannen, in her article “‘Bossy’ is more than a word to women” she brings the interest of people to a specific word that is affecting a social group. One of the sections in her work reads “That's why "bossy" is not just a word but a frame of mind. Let's agree to stop sending girls and women the message that they'll be disliked — or worse — if they exercise authority.” Although, the magnitude of both scenarios is kind of different (as one deals with the social infrastructure of a whole social group—which has been affected to the point of death—and the other one targets a word, both are attacking an injustice evenly.) In both cases, Deborah and Aaron comprehended that a social group was being targeted and they both took it upon themselves to study, live and comprehend the groups. Those examples clearly demonstrate how different a social issue can be a target, people that act based on what they believe is correct are indeed social justice

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