Marxist Hive harasses city budget deliberations

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Feb 21

RE: Bringing justice to city budget deliberations.  Hamilton Spectator Op-ed of 6 Feb 21.  Written by “The Just Recovery Coalition” a group of non-profit organizations in Hamilton ‘advocating for a fair and equitable recovery from COVID -19.’  Specifically the non-profits are: The YWCA Hamilton, Hamilton Social Planning and Research Council, Environment Hamilton, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, The Disability and Justice Network of Ontario, SACHA, Hamilton ACORN, Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion, Hamilton Community Legal Clinic, Spectrum, and Hamilton Community Benefits Network. Notice how innocuous-sounding the names of these groups are?

What could be more unserious than a Marxist hive arguing about justice, equity, and investment?  The Just Recovery Coalition is just such a Marxist hive spouting the latest globalist nonsense out of Davos.  Build Back Better! 2SLGBTQQIA+!

Let’s straighten out the Hive’s circular definition of justice.  Justice isn’t ‘the practice of assessing the fairness of relations between individuals and groups.’  If you define just as “based on what is morally right and fair,” then you’ve just contradicted yourself.  It’s one or the other; but in fact justice is neither.  Justice isn’t a kind of assessing, and what exactly is morally right and fair depends too much on one’s conception of morality.  A Muslim finds it perfectly moral to enslave a Christian or to kill a Jew.

Justice consists in treating equals equally and unequals unequally.  There are courts of justice and courts of equity.  Courts of Justice administer and apply the law, and everyone is equal before the law. An example of a court of equity is a bankruptcy court, where creditors are assigned the spoils of a ruined company.  Equity is intended to be a kind of corrective justice.

Hence, when the Hive speaks of justice and equity, they cloak the equity they seek with the respectability of justice.  They seek the spoils of city taxation for their purposes, which have nothing to do with justice, properly understood.  True justice requires that the imprecations of the Hive be ignored.

It’s about spending the people’s money.  Governments don’t “invest,” Marxists; governments spend.  Pressuring the people’s representatives to spend money on your pet projects is undemocratic.  But then, you’re Marxists; to hell with the wicked, white taxpayers who are responsible for all the injustice in the world!  By screwing them, we get the corrective justice we seek!

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