Pope Francis on Paris Attack - "one who throws insults can expect a 'punch'"

[Gustaf]

I think Antonio's post touched upon one of the big issues I have with the whole social justice, check your privilege stuff. That is, it seems to rest on the notion that horrible things are always done by the powerful against the powerless and that we should therefore only care for the powerless (that is a simplistic version, sure). To me that seems to be an obvious untruth. Charlie Hebdo is an excellent example. Clearly, the cartoon writers had more privilege than the killers. And that's not an isolated incident either. Look at the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Jews in Western Europe before WW2, the Chinese of Southeast Asia. Etc, etc.

Since it constantly happens that the less privileged commit mass murder against the more privileged it strikes me as a very shaky and very dubious basis for some sort of moral framework.