Can social justice go too far? I think the obvious answer is, of course, anything can go too far.

Too much of a good thing can be bad. Personally, social justice, in my opinion, is a good thing

when it creates equality of opportunity. People shouldn't be restricted from jobs,

from education, from any kind of program simply because of the way they look, where they come from

what they believe. People should have an equal access to opportunity. But when people start advocating

for equal outcome, they start putting people who probably shouldn't be in a job in a certain job,

and that can be dangerous, and it can be bad for everybody, and it actually results in more

discrimination. When social justice tries too hard, you actually end up seeing racism and sexism,

so yes, I think it's fair to say it can go too far. Recently at CERN, one of the largest scientific

research centers in the world, a man gave a presentation which was deemed highly offensive.

In it, he presented evidence that he claimed showed men were being discriminated against in the

sciences. CERN removed the slides and data from their website, because it was upsetting to many

of the young women who were at the presentation, and they've issued a statement about it. It's rather

controversial. And here we have another way in which social justice can go too far. If this data is

factually accurate, then why remove it? You don't want to hide facts simply because it hurts people's

feelings. This can be bad for everybody. So there's my question. Can it go too far? And I've got more

examples but first, let's start by looking at what happened at CERN. From the BBC, CERN

scientist, physics built by men not by invitation. At a workshop organized by CERN, Professor

Alessandro Strumia of Pisa University said that physics was invented and built by men, it's not by

invitation. He's at male scientists who were being discriminated against because of ideology rather

than merit. He was speaking at a workshop in Geneva on gender and high energy physics. Professor

Strumia has since defended his comment saying he was only presenting the facts. CERN, the European

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