The captivity of grievance: A challenge to modern progressive ideology
By Michael Hancock | Commentary, Undercurrent Substack
The Psychological Chains Hidden Inside the Language of Compassion
There are chains that can be seen. There are chains that must be discovered.
The visible chain is the easier one to condemn. It clanks. It bruises. It announces itself in iron, law, lash, and blood. Chattel slavery was such an evil. It placed one man’s body under another man’s ownership and then constructed an entire moral fiction to justify the theft. It was not merely an economic system. It was a theological lie. It denied what Genesis declared at the beginning: “God created man in His own image.”
That is where every serious conversation about human dignity must begin.
Not with race. Not with class. Not with grievance. Not with politics. ...


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