Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Call the crime what it is and hold people accountable!

7 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, the speaker confronts a disturbing high‑school culture where students brag about getting peers drunk and then assaulting them. He emphasizes that such behavior is often down‑played or mislabeled, urging listeners to explicitly name it as sexual assault. By calling the act what it is, the speaker argues, society can begin to address it. He then asks why bystanders fail to intervene and what concrete steps can be taken to stop this pattern of abuse, highlighting the need for accountability and proactive intervention.

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Can you imagine in high school, is it possible you heard people brag on a Monday morning about how drunk they got someone on a Friday night and what they ended up doing while drunk? Is it possible people could have bragged like that in a high school environment, yes or no? Yes. Imagine if everybody had paused in that moment and went, whew, so we're talking about sexual assault. It would have changed the entire conversation. But we don't call it what it is. Right. So we've gotta start calling it what it is so we can make a difference. So now the question is, what do you do? Right? What do you do? But before we ask, what do you do? The question is, why aren't people stopping this right now?