Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.