Social injustice
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Social Injustice is a concept relating to the purported unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities. The concept is distinct from those of justice in law, which may or may not be considered moral in practice, or from the concept of justice within a coherent ideological system, which focuses on just process rather than on incidental inequalities. Opposition to social injustice is increasingly a platform of emerging political parties. Social injustice arises when equals are treated unequally and unequals are treated equally[vague]. (Aristotle's principle of injustice)
Historically, authors have used literature to denounce or to satirize perceived social injustices in their societies. Some examples are Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Dario Fo, Minfong Ho, Victor Hugo, Harper Lee, James A. Michener, Harold Pinter, Upton Sinclair, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Alan Paton, and George Orwell.
Social injustice is caused by certain barriers that prevent full social justice. Some of the major barriers include: prejudice, discrimination, oppression, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, and sexism. Over the last 30–40 years, most social injustice in the US and the world has been based on economic class and the lack of access to non-violent mechanisms for reform by the middle class and working class[citation needed]. In order to fully overcome incidental inequalities which some[who?] view as socially unjust these barriers must be removed from our society and differences to rig equality of outcome must be embraced.
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