It is collective vengeance against great injustices they perceive. Being born white. Accumulating wealth. Being a man. Denying their religious views. And most recently, wearing a red MAGA hat.

I have read Douglass's autobiography (the one he wrote before the Civil War, not the later one; I understand there were things he left out of the first one, so as not to get in trouble people who had helped him escape from slavery). I think he was a sort of "poetic justice warrior". He also seemed to believe in "social justice" so far as that phrase has any actual, honest meaning; he did not seem to be in favor of socialism or welfare statism, but actual justice. He was also, so far as I know, not a "reverse racist"; in fact, he married a white woman.

I never get people's obsession with social justice. All my life the people on the social justice committee.seemed like kind people. They're not demanding use of force or immediate satisfaction. They seem completely the opposite.

The fact that ten years later President Obama's critics are still taking a line from a speech out of context trying to shoehorn it into meaning something else makes me feel like hue must be one of the best presidents of all time. I'll probably never again in my life see a US president for whom they have to reach so hard to find something to criticize.

I believe it is that the SJW arm of the Democrats, are constantly projecting their past crimes and their learned guilt on others/you. Example: They have a documented history of racism but the SJWs now actively search for any speck of it in any white nook or any white cranny, ignoring all other colors.
To them, this social vengeance is the virtuous cause of social altruism.

Please clarify your statement.

I also have read stories about Fredrick Douglas. As a slave he was traded to a new "owner". The new owner was in Baltimore, Maryland. (If I remember correctly). He worked in a home in the city. The owners wife started teaching him how to read. When the owner found out he told his wife to stop because, if they learn to read, they become difficult to manage.
Sounds like LBJ when he said giving black folks welfare will keep 'em voting democrat for years

What many people don't know is that President Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House to discuss Washington's economic philosophy. The president was so blasted by people across the political spectrum for Washington's visit, he had to cut off any further support. Unfortunate, but a reflection of the times, with undoubtedly the most racist president, Woodrow Wilson coming soon after.

To me one of the ironies of that compromise was that the lever they uses, IIRC, was taxation. As taxes were to be apportioned at that time by population, the prospect of bearing the financial burden more heavily was an effective bargaining tool.

That compromise and the "Great Compromise" that led to the Constitution's branched government are probably the least understood (or known, though the fact that we had a rather different government before the constitution is even less known) aspects of our governmental history. Indeed I had a discussion with a "kill the electoral college" guy recently who actually believed the "over representation" in the Senate and EC was to get the "small states" board because they were the slavery states. Talk about being as wrong as you can be on something!

Making only 60% of the slave population count reduced the number of representatives for the slave states, which was the real impetus behind the compromise. It was a pallative for the more abolitionist northern states, who would rather have seen a total ban on slavery. The southern states, with their large slave populations, would rather have seen all of the slaves counted, but realized they had to give up something.

What many fail to realize is that there were abolitionists in the slave states, and even slave owners who recognized holding people in chattel was wrong. Some people feared a slave uprising (especially after the Haitian revolution in 1791), while others worried about the slaves' welfare if released on their own.

What was sad and ironic was the lost opportunity to end slavery peacefully in the last 20 years before the Civil war. Slave owners were open to an end to the institution, provided they were financially compensated for the loss of their human property, but Congress balked at the cost. Too bad they didn't have the foresight as to how little that would have been compared to the terrible price of the conflict to follow.

To me "poetic" justice (some call it karma) is just plain justice. It is the result of choice - usually a bad one. The only poetry is the irony involved when the timing of the repercussions just happen to emphasize the initial poor choice.

Douglass was a great student and far more of a role model in my mind than MLK. I think it's a disservice that more people don't learn about him in US History classes.

I have a book on him. It makes me wonder why young blacks are not pointed in his direction, or Thomas Sowell, as role models. No, they choose rap "artists" or reality stars. How fare we have fallen.I have come to beieve anything with "social" in front of it is a losing proposition. Social science, where hard science is ignored, comes to ming.

I believe the description of a poetic justice warrior would also apply to Booker T. Washington, with his belief that education was the way to break down racial barriers. Martin Luther King, Jr. actually was more a poetic type, with his belief that reminding everyone of the Founders' desire for true individual freedom was key to removing division.

Frederick Douglass loved the US Constitution for its clarity and inspiration. He understood the "three fifths" rule as a means to curb the power of slave states, which seems to escape comprehension in the eyes of the social justice types. The disdain for Douglass is actually based on a more crass basis than any ideological slant. He was married to a white woman, and unlike today, where mixed coupling is not as important, the social justice thugs believe that Douglass' marriage was just a sign he had sold out to white power.

Frederick Douglas is a Black Legend nobody has heard of. I read a book about him. Amazing.

But the Average American doesn't even know him, and the few black people I ask about him, SHUN him because they were told he was a bad conservative, and a traitor to the cause.

The brainwashing runs deep.

"Poetic justice", "Social Justice"...

When I hear these terms I always know propaganda follows, with zero truth behind it.

One might say that just having success over the temptations of one's brain by one's mind...is Poetic justice in the self control of behavior.