Barack Obama and his radical leftists have come up with an almost endless list of weird Orwellian terms. These include: community reinvestment, community organizing, localism, and affirmative action. They all mean basically the same ugly thing: redistributing wealth from upper-class whites to lower-class African-Americans by mandate from the government.
Now there's a new codeword to watch out for: Environmental Justice. A favorite of the Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator Lisa Jackson, environmental justice has historically meant stopping pesticides that cause massive harm to the environment, for example. But in Barack Obama's world, the term takes on a whole new meaning: sticking it to the corporations while prioritizing African-Americans and Hispanics over whites.
Here's how EPA Administrator Jackson put it in a recent memo: "We are building strong working relationships with tribes, communities of color, economically distressed cities and towns, young people and others, but this is just a start. We must include environmental justice principles in all of our decisions." She goes on to talk about how the EPA must protect "vulnerable subpopulations".
The EPA's job is to protect the American environment. But in Barack Obama's world, it becomes just another instrument to lift up liberal minority interest groups at the expense of everyone else.
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