Call it by name
When the elites of capital and politics repeatedly get away with crime, corruption, rape, pedophilia and cruelty, we, the people, have many ways to respond. Here are three possibilities.
1. At the very least, to name it with precision. The mainstream media are not doing this, for they are part of the elite.
Not underage women, but girls and children.
Truth spoken with precision is the first step toward change. Remove all extraneous words. Leave behind the pretty packaging.
Call it by name.
Apartheid. Committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups, and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.
What Israel is doing to the Palestinians is apartheid. What is happening every day in the West Bank is settler colonialism.
The rush to criminalise the person who leaked the evidence of sexual violence and rape by the IDF of a Palestinian prisoner is held as more egregious than the violent act itself. Rape is bad if it is done to one of your people, but acceptable and even encouraged if it is done to the other. Rape of anyone, at any time, by anyone, is a crime. Period.
The United States of America elected a convicted rapist, felon and more than likely a pedophile, to be president. Not to mention a corrupt businessman, who, like most of his political comrades, are becoming obsenely wealthy from their poltics.
The Australian two-party political system is captured by big business and the Israeli lobby. As are most political parties in the West. Corruption, cronyism and blackmail are business as usual.
2. Use your anger to create an organised and strategic revolution. It is a long game, yet it must be played persistently and strategically.
As Zohran Mamdani said, “I also think that we have found exactly the way to defeat organised money, which is organised people.”
Organise. Be strategic.
3. Recognise and acknowledge that we are in the world we are in now because we stepped over Little Atrocities. That very first, seemingly small act that made the second Little, slightly bigger, atrocity acceptable. Do not enact Little Atrocities, nor step over anyone. Dominating power is only granted by our acceptance of our diminishment. When we see a Little Atrocity, go back to step #1. Call it by name.
Photo Taken November 15th 2025, Article published November 15th, 2025
