Whether someone says “it’s not fair” is an empirical fact, and has nothing to do with social conditioning.

Whether they are justified, or indeed what they might mean, is dependent on social conditioning. But whether they said it, is not.

I don’t disagree. However given that the statement is made WITHIN an ideological framework, and is a reflection of the entirety of the norms and values that consciously or unconsciously focus and ‘make sense of ‘ the world, whether that ‘fact’ tells us anything of social significance is debatable.

This can be well illustrated by the rather futile debate about either the old SUSS laws or stop-and-search powers today.

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