“We are the people of the civil rights movement. We are the ones that must stand for civil and equal rights, justice, equal justice. Not special justice, not social justice. We are the inheritors and protectors of the civil rights movement. They are perverting it.” - Glenn Beck as quoted in The New York Times

How does one even respond to the idea that Glenn Beck is a protector of the civil rights movement? Laughter? Tears?

“Equal justice” in Mr. Beck’s context would seem to indicate a belief that justice is a stand alone commodity whose value should be determined by market forces, not a facet of human interaction where suffering is caused and can be alleviated, and if justice is a product of social interaction, then the idea that social justice is not something we should be working towards is, to me, absurd.