Some people's imagination for justice ends at retribution.
This is true for many with power and privilege, who can only imagine retribution is the goal of every justice-seeking initiative from the margins.
While we need to define terms carefully, and justice is often vague, injustice is generally clear and obvious.
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Injustice and antagonism are entrenched with self-serving platitudes.
Seeking to point out injustice does not inherently mean seeking retribution, but it is a politically expedient thing to assume and suggest.
These are strategies of entrenchment of status quo, so the system can keep serving who it serves, ignoring who it ignores, and oppressing who it oppresses.