Justice Sensitivity Is The Cure, Not The Sickness

The term ‘justice sensitivity’ was first discussed in 1995 by Schmitt, Neumann and Montada as a ‘personality disposition’ and meant to explain differences in reactions to unfair situations. It was studied from three dimensions - unfairness towards self, unfairness towards others, and profiting from unfairness. We have been raised in a reality where people do experiments to find out to what extent people give a sh*t.

Our reality has been shaped by those who, by necessity, do not give a sh*t about others, and do not give a sh*t about exploiting others for material gain. They do give a sh*t about themselves, but not about their true selves. They give a sh*t about their power and status and comfort, but not their growth, their humanity or their wholeness. They teach us to value these same things and to neglect our true selves and our true needs. Being unbothered by (or not even noticing) the mistreatment of ourselves and the mistreatment of others is essential to upholding the interlocking systems of oppression that make up our colonial existence. Profiting from unfairness, is how you can reach the top of the tree within our unfair system. It’s why some people envy billionaires and covet their lifestyles, instead of being enraged that they exist while people are living and dying in poverty. Sensitivity to the injustice of profiting from unfairness would produce a desire to change the system that produces billionaires, whereas insensitivity to it produces envy and drives competition, individualism and ruthlessness - fuel for the beasts of white supremacy and capitalism.

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