Unworthy of justice: When ideology determines victims

A country cannot survive when justice is reduced from an objective absolute to a negotiable idea that is only seized when the victims and perpetrators align with our cultural vendettas.

This article was published in full at Catholic World Report. It may be found in full (freely) there. The introduction follows:

There is a growing ideological trend that seeks to deprive those broadly considered as being “on the right” of any and all rights, through dehumanization and the systematic exclusion from key institutions.

Most of us expect such an attitude among young college students, who have limited life experience and have not yet met the human beings with whom they disagree and about whose lives they are so cavalier. But this ideological malice is far more pervasive than that. No longer seen as extreme, we live among those who maintain a sort of nonchalant malevolence. Those who have redefined speech as violence need little help in the justification of retribution against their enemies.

I lived this reality in a small way when I was made a victim of a minor crime in an American city.

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