This is often misinterpreted as an absence of forgiveness because no amount of contrition seems to abate the condemnation.
Also, there existed this concept of a re-do -- as in a 'jubilee' - land is returned - and 7 years where the debts are reset etc ( the original of current laws limiting bankruptcies to 7 yrs ). No one in a biblical scenario remained poor because their ancestors slacked off.
Now that those are not in play, one sees a class of people condemned to remain low with no ways of rising up.
While there is progress being made to alleviate these conditions, it is not fast enough. These group ( poor socio-economic) train their guns against the rich.
The rich being smart, use their puppets like the media, etc to create fake outrage - propping up 2 parties which essentially are the same thing with minor differences, drumming up differences based on race, creating new controversies with gender etc.
Instead, these people who refuse to forgive do so because they feel that forgiveness has been used to excuse abuse (read broadly) and to keep abusers in power. In other words, it's all about power, and forgiveness just doesn't feature.
I agree. Wokism is protestant Christianity without foregivness: https://pontifex.substack.com/p/no-redemption-for-the-woke
Is it old protestant and puritan? Possibly, I'm not sure of the origins.
Even the Soviets thoughts that prisoners could be rehabilitated (in principle), and we can consider the Nordic prison model for a more contemporary example. Even English criminology is more about reform than punishment. Often victims feel sidelined because of this.
American justice in general doesn't have this sense of rehabilitation being more important than vindication. Justice is retribution by the victim on both right and left wings. I posit that this is why the US is struggling with the "woke", it's because the methods and tactics are seen as normal.
Explains a lot about the foreign policy too...
I hadn't thought of it from that angle, but it fits.
Sometimes I at least understand the urge to be emotional in response to a story, other times the desired punishment seems absurdly disproportionate. Regardless, there is a clear ideological conflict with wanting to rehabilitate murderers!
It does when the current majority no longer has a systemic advantage. Essentially it's saying, I don't want you to say you're sorry, I want things to change.
In a world where nobody feels like they have enough, I don't blame white individuals for being upset by the claim that they are privileged. And I don't think the answer is to take away all advantages from anybody because that's a race to the bottom. But, I do understand how a black American might eventually get frustrated when people display contrition over, for example, police brutality, but it continues to happen disproportionately.
Still, I understand better now how empty words will do little to soften woke hearts.
So many arguments start with a declaration of victimhood.
So many arguments over who is the greatest victim.
Greatest victim = greatest authority.
And so it follows that "suffering" carries the greatest epistemological weight. Which sounds kinda awful on the face of it.