'He' Who should not be named

When the mosque was attacked in New Zealand, one thing that is made clear by the New Zealand Prime Minister is that they will never know who the attacker was. She made it clear that history will never make him popular and they didn’t even take his name in their parliament. In a way, she refused to name the Voldemort. What she went on to talk about is solidarity that they all stand united in this tragic moment of their history.

Taking this cue forward and into the digital media, we see how people easily get offended from a distant line, some comment, some picture that nobody cares about, that nobody even thought about until unless we decided to share it, make it mainstream and publically condemn it. It then creates a cycle, a domino effect and it gets on to create a tsunami out of it. The idea which was distant is given a shape and we remain innocent at one corner of the earth.

There are videos of hate comments against some other religion, some group, some race, and some event and so on. We choose to share that publically. We are making people aware that such an idea exists. The idea once planted into the human’s brain has the freedom to be reshaped at will, in a different situation. We will start to believe that this really is true. It’s like the zombie thing and how it gets spread. There are plenty of rich ideas of harmony, of making a right change, of worthy to talk about and they keep rotting in their space.

Voldemort must not be named because he is not important. He must not be talked about. He is powerless without this. 

So let me write Dumbledore four times, more than the number of times I have written Voldemort: Professor Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore, Prof Albus Dumbledore! Let's spread the light.