… it is depressingly clear that any time someone uses the word “social” as an adjective placed in front of a perfectly adequate noun (e.g. justice, conscience, issue) it turns the phrase into a Left-wing piece of doggerel, which has little to do with the noun’s original meaning.
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if you like your social security you can keep your social security
In lingering . . . perhaps we could persuade some of our friends who are adequate Latinists to say a little about the origins of the word social, how it was used in its original tongue, what were its implications and so on, and then possible look closely even at the changes which took place in its use in later times, like the so-called Middle Ages and in other ages onwards?
The Left uses it as a kinder, gentler synonym for national. So says Jonah Goldberg.
The Left uses it as a kinder, gentler synonym for national
which is, Ernst, kind of the point – for the Left, it is to divorce individuals from their rights & responsibilities and adhere them to “the group.”
It is impossible for a “group” to have a conscience. And justice is that which is delivered to individuals.
justice is what the state tells you it is –wrecker
In current use ‘social’ functions as an abstraction, implying a relation among peoples who are never related as people relate to one another in a knowing sense, as we know our friends, or we know the people down the street. But is this where the word came from, this abstraction? Somehow (I’m am not a Latinist), I doubt it, but have the sense that true relations, the knowing relations of people being together in their bodies were always the criteria of the matter.
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Old-fashioned that I am, “social” was a word whose definition was accepted to mean interactions between friends, family and people you wanted to be friends with.
Going out with the girls for lunch being a social luncheon in contrast to meeting with my staff & having lunch provided while we thrash out work issues being a business luncheon.
Now it is a sobriquet, denoting followers whose morality is superior and whose motives can never be questioned.
social justice
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Darleen, e-mail me and I’ll send you a good thing to read.
I’m hardly an adequate Latinist, but I do know how to read a dictionary, so,
Thus sayeth Lewis and Short:
socio, avi, atum (v.): to join or unite together, to associate, to do or hold in common [emph. add.], to share.
socius, socii (n.): fellow, sharer, partner, comrade, companion, associate, ally
socius, a, um (adj.) sharing, joining in, partaking, united, associated, kindred, allied, fellow.
So, the Romans used it pretty much the same way we do, except perhaps less impersonally abstractly. For example, mention social security in the senate, and you’re either talking about how the allies were doing a good job of keeping the barbarians at bay, or you’re talking about how the allies are safely under Roman authority.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever bothered to compile a mediaeval Latin dictionary.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Social “security” provides no security at all; the FICA monies extracted from my paycheck are not in an account under my name, but in a large “Trust fund” that has been systematically raided by Congress over the decades, leaving nothing but a stack of IOUs representing the promise of one part of the government to pay another.
Social “justice” is injustice. It requires that the innocent be punished for imagined crimes and that the guilty be exonerated of their real transgressions.
Social “conscience” denies agency, and thus consciousness and consience, to the very people it pretends to protect.
Social “responsibility” demands that someone other than those who take a particular choice of action, and are legally denied the liberty to refuse it, be “responsible” for it.
And last, but certainly not least… Social “science” is completely UNscientific. When data deviate from theory, they are declared raaaaacist, seeeeexist, homophooooobic, etc., and discarded. When people act like real scientists and disagree with the elite’s preordained conclusions, they receive those epithets as well as “out of the mainstream”, “not agreeing with the consensus”, and similar ad hom/ad pop labels.
Unless you refer to Social STUDIES!
Which (when done correctly) is the antidote for the Socialist impingement on the original noun.
Ok. What then, is a “social” disease?
Conjunctivitis?
proggtardia?
…because using “commie” as a prefix was too obvious of a tell.
“…because using “commie” as a prefix was too obvious of a tell. ”
commie, statist, social, all the same big gov’t crap. eff these clowndisasters™
putin is taking on the faggots in western “culture”. oh crimea
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But, but, but…isn’t Social Justice what:
Lenin and Stalin brought to Russia and Eastern Europe…
Mussolini brought to Italy…
Hitler brought to Germany and Europe…
Mao Tse Dung brought to China…
Kim Il Sung brought to Korea…
Ho Chi Minh brought to Viet Nam…
Pol Pot brought to Cambodia…
Mugabe brought to Zimbabwe..???
I mean, what did you think those guys were selling ???