Writer questions concept of white privilege

I’m confused. News stories call Social Justice a political activist movement. Weeks ago Mr. Hiniker linked it to U.S. regime change. Isn’t that political?

But a recent writer says it was an all smiles day for elementary students. Another letter links it to the Golden Rule suggesting Social Justice a platform of moral betterment. What does that mean? One speaker that day told students the moral ills of white privilege; a political version of the doctrine of original sin. Another talk covered dangers of micro-aggressions; a politicized take on venial sinning. I’m trying to feel comforted knowing there are so many unofficial clergy among us ready to make up for religious failings and negligent parenting.

Neither Golden Rule nor Constitution is Social Justice Doctrine calling for collective judgment (as white privilege has it) of others based on birth rather than on their actions. Saying there is white privilege is the same as talking about dumb blondes. These biases are intellectual kissing cousins.

Harry Drabik
Hovland