Eugene Robinson loves the Occupy protests
as he writes in his column titled The Occupy protests: A timely call for justice. He gives lots of reasons, beginning like this:
Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ’em.After noting the refusal to make specific demands, and criticizing Eric Cantor as a hypocrite for his attacks on Occupy Wall Stree while having praised the Tea Partiers, he notes his belief that the protests are occurring at just the right time aimed at precisely the rught target, and may be the start of something "big and important,' and then he offers this paragraph:
“Economic justice” may mean different things to different people, but it’s not an empty phrase. It captures the sense that somehow, when we weren’t looking, the concept of fairness was deleted from our economic system — and our political lexicon. Economic injustice became the norm.
