Social justice, as it plays out in the education sphere, seeks primarily one thing: diversion of higher education toward political activism and ideological indoctrination. And as anyone with eyes to see has noticed, it is taking over America’s colleges and universities.
Social justice as a general theory splits the world into separate identity groups — oppressed and privileged. The oppressed, the theorists contend, can liberate themselves by destroying the structures that keep them down. This requires silencing the “privileged” and redistributing goods and honors. Put another way, it requires a revolution of sorts. Opposition to the social justice agenda is therefore viewed as immoral and must be destroyed.
In higher education, this means overhauling the university to support social justice. Tactically, partisans seek to retrain students' minds by infusing administration, policies, hiring, curriculum, and residence life with social justice ideology.
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