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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 09:38 PM Jul 2015

Which of these statements are you more in agreement with...

A. We can't have true social justice until we have economic justice:
B. We can't have true economic justice until we have social justice:
C. There is no need to prioritize between economic justice and social justice, because we can work for and achieve both at the same time:

(elaborate on your answer below)

(note: Answers are listed in a different order than the statements actually appeared above)
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Statement B
0 (0%)
Statement A
2 (29%)
Statement C
5 (71%)
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Which of these statements are you more in agreement with... (Original Post) Ken Burch Jul 2015 OP
Social justice and Economic justice rock Jul 2015 #1
You might need to adjust C TM99 Jul 2015 #2
Very good point TDale313 Jul 2015 #4
Making this poll was a great idea. Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #3
Let's Have MLK weigh in as he seemed to have some personal experience with this. canoeist52 Jul 2015 #5
Work for both and take what we can, when we can; it won't all come at once . . . Journeyman Jul 2015 #6
 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
2. You might need to adjust C
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:18 PM
Jul 2015

and create a variation D.

Some will vote C and as one poster has said, there is no interaction between the two so we can work on both. Whereas I and others will vote C because there is an absolute interaction between the two. We must work on both together for either one to be successful.

TDale313

(7,820 posts)
4. Very good point
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:37 PM
Jul 2015

And I voted C, because I feel we need both and they do go hand in hand in many ways. You can't have one without the other.

 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
3. Making this poll was a great idea.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:36 PM
Jul 2015

The choices are perfect. Adding more choices would dilute the results so we wouldn't get a clear picture.

For me economic justice is part of social justice because the economy happens in society.

canoeist52

(2,282 posts)
5. Let's Have MLK weigh in as he seemed to have some personal experience with this.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:50 PM
Jul 2015

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong... with capitalism.... There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism".

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
6. Work for both and take what we can, when we can; it won't all come at once . . .
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 01:18 AM
Jul 2015

and neither will be easier than the other.

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