Justice As Depicted In Hing's 'Race, Disability'

Everyone has his or her own understanding of “justice” and their meanings of the word are shaped by different characteristics like culture and personal experiences. In today’s world, “justice” is a vague term with potentially biased notions since it is difficult to set up a perfect and universally acceptable criterion that describes ultimate justice. For the purpose of this essay, a more flexible and practical definition of justice should be employed. Upon examining the social realms across disability, education, and labor fields in America, social phenomenon disregarding fairness leads to injustice as a huge disparity of social power and opportunities between the powerful and the powerless remains unsolved. In Hing’s text “Race, Disability, …show more content…
Taking the example of a low-income household, a child with minority characteristics may expose to segregation within the education system. As the first step of becoming a social being, learning is indispensable as school system defines how skilled and equipped you are for the society. For students with unfavorable racial, financial, and social backgrounds, certain school policies come across with injustice for having segregated education. From the essay “Race, Disability, and School-to-Prison Pipeline,” the author Hing argued that introducing specialized courses targeting minority is a sign of unfairness when the education system singles out students with “disabled” properties. By tagging others as “disabled,” the society takes the fact that powerful figures should take care of the powerless for granted. Here, helping these students becomes a justification to the unfair treatments enforced upon them, which diverges students with diverse backgrounds into different levels of social functioning. Those beings who have favored backgrounds with higher education soon enter their suitable social positions while the …show more content…
One crucial aspect of attaining justice is not having the properties that degrade personality and humanity, an ultimate way of creating inequality. Downgrading personal values leads to irreversible class dominance, which ultimately leads to an unfair distribution of resources like financial interests and job opportunities. One example of injustice existing in the labor industry is the repetitive violation of worker rights and freedom. From the text “The Socialist Challenge,” the author demonstrated how unjust industries exploit their workers. Under capitalist interests, those on top of the social construction dominates the minorities to gain more profits as they dehumanize the workers. Such social superiority created is so powerful that a cultural representation viewing workers as submissive machines starts to justify such injustice and further widens the gap between social classes. Adding more to the unfair working status, many workers who resisted the system in forms of strikes and other direct actions are being further degraded as not just tools, but criminals. The resisters were incarcerated along with horrible treatments like “beatings, tarrings, and featherings” (Zinn 333), which reflect an absolute deprivation of human rights. These inhumane treatments toward workers also tie to the discussion on disability since