Just recently was celebrated the 'social justice' day. Indeed an excellent concept it is theoretically! It has as its base such sterling issues as equity, for instance. A laudable idea indeed. Yet is there actually any real social justice? One wonders at times!
May be, social justice is possible for those who do have all the paradigmatic positionings that can easily locate her to be a victim, for instance. A young woman, for instance, who comes from a poor family and a caste historically assigned to the alienated/scheduled category, would find it a little easier, and, yes, more possible to get something akin to social justice.
Would an absolutely innocent woman from the upper caste and from a slightly well-off family get the same sympathy when she is cruelly harassed for no rhyme nor reason? May be, the harassment could be due to someone's jealousy, given her all-round brilliance. It could be someone's vicious obsession to harass her so that this cowardly nameless XYZ can please some ABC whom s/he, the XYZ, loves, and that ABC hates like hell this poor soul?
It could be someone's crazy obsession, all the more bothersome it would be if that crook possibly belongs to a religion that in India has by definition all the sympathy. Who knows who the creepy and, unfortunately, nameless, cowardly because faceless, cheap fellow/woman is behind the harassment?
Does the poor suffering victim get any social justice? None, whatsoever! Well, she does not fit the bill, the convenient parameters to be a victim, you see! In fact, there is a gloating all around that thus is besmirched an ideal identity, whose genuine goodness every which way can hardly ever, in fact, never, be attained by such worthless weaklings eternally foolishly gossiping and doing nothing else worthwhile in their own empty lives! Every misfortune, each lost, nay, consciously snatched/hacked, chance of such a victim gives gloating, tremendous joy to the vicious of all sorts and categories!
The secret nameless harasser seems to be offering some temptation(s) to trap his/her hundreds of minions to harass the innocent victim in multiple ways. If she ever were to turn back and question, so very conveniently they can label her arrogant, witch, bitch, and, oh, yes, if possible, mad! All this harassment of an innocent for some nameless weirdo's ego! And yet the grand talk of social justice and Gandhian principles, and what have you, goes on and on and on and on and on!
No wonder, Shakespeare's quote regarding life being a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing, is truer than all the empty, 'vain' in all senses, talk of social justice, blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah!
Pratima@ When you help and allow a vicious crook to harass and harm an innocent, remember, the very next victim would be YOU!
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