Social injustice

Carlos A. Parra
3 min readMar 10, 2020

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Social injustice is the inequality and discrimination that exists in society due to the poor distribution of goods and social rights. One of the main causes of this is corruption since the rulers misuse these funds either to benefit themselves and their loved ones or due to recklessness and ignorance, another very common cause of this type of injustice is the laws that they benefit some people, but at the same time harm others. Social injustice has been very present in our country in the course of history, a very notorious time that Porfirio Diaz ruled, who is said to have discriminated against and marginalized indigenous groups through the laws he imposed to obtain land. and give them to people close to him, another very particular case was when before women could not vote for the mere fact of being women which is a clear representation of social injustice.

In present-day Mexico, there is not much the case of social injustice because of the way in which the laws are written but it is very common to see the social injustice caused by corruption because the rulers make a bad use of the people’s resources, a situation that very well exemplifies this situation is the current one in the country in which the current government is misusing the country’s resources by giving “scholarships” to people who don’t even need them, causing a great lack of national funds either for hospitals or support programs for people who really need and deserve that support (such as athletes, participants of some cultural or intellectual discipline, Mexican researchers, etc.), which converges in a social discontent and affects people who have few financial resources.

These situations of social injustices are affecting the country a lot due to the lack of resources that are leading to violence, organized crime and robberies since the government does not have money to invest in the country, whether education, work or quality medical services, is leading people to commit crimes to be able to have money and survive day to day, which causes an environment of insecurity in Mexico away from possible foreign investors thus generating lack of work and foreign investment in the country. Another very controversial issue these days that represents a part of social injustice is that of the protests and the feminist movement, which are demanding better treatment of women because they believe that the laws favor men but this is not the case as All the laws and rights of the Mexican constitution are exercised in the same way for men as for women, so there is no supposed social injustice for the laws or rights, something that is right if the government is not doing well their work in dealing with prosecuting and punishing criminals who violate women’s rights, which is why by introducing very soft laws criminals are taking advantage of this situation.

As final comments I would like to add that social injustice is something that should be tried to eradicate from the world and if it is not possible to decrease its practice, therefore I propose several ideas as a solution to the problem, first, where all education begins is at home, therefore, people should be educated from an early age to be fair and honest people with their actions, so that any action they carry out, whether good or bad, leads to consequences for the same or even for third parties, second, to make people aware of choosing the right rulers who can lead a country on the right track, it is known that it is not possible to select the perfect politician to govern a country but if you can select the most capable, of course, they will make mistakes but they are the minimum possible, as the last idea It would be listening to the opinion of the people that is what they want for their well-being and trying to fulfill it, with these stockings and some others that could be incorporated you could have a better country.

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