A few months ago, one of the so-called targeted individual organisations asked for suggestions or solutions from affected people on how the situation could be improved for targeted individuals.
I responded to this with a potential suggestion.
My suggestion was that the affected people should join together to form a group of affected people and move together as a group. This is because when individuals try and fight on their own, they can often be dismissed and not listened to. When people club together as a single voice, their voices cannot be so easily dismissed.
Unfortunately, the representative blocked me upon reading my suggestion which signalled to me that they weren't really interested in serious suggestions or, indeed, any suggestions.
When people are harmed by the same system, organisation, or pattern of behaviour, they almost always have more strength, visibility, and leverage when they act together. This is true emotionally, socially, politically, and legally.
The current grooming gangs scandal in the UK clearly illustrates this dynamic: for years, isolated victims were ignored, blamed or disbelieved. Once groups of survivors came forward collectively - supported by charities, journalists and campaigners - the pattern of exploitation and institutional failure became visible and impossible to dismiss.
The same dynamic has also happened in other scandals, such as the Post Office scandal. Individual sub-postmasters were repeatedly told they were the only ones facing accounting anomalies. Only when hundreds came together did the scale of the failure become undeniable, forcing the courts, Parliament and the public to confront the truth.
Here is a short 30 second clip on X which, in a nutshell, sums up why a collective voice is far stronger than an individual voice.
I saw a video on social media last week which stated that hundreds of targeted individuals have already taken their own individual fights and claims forward and basically had them dismissed / ruled out / dismissed etc.
Herein, I believe, lies the problem. Had these individuals joined together, they perhaps would have stood a much stronger chance of obtaining some wins, whether small or big, which they could utilise and move forwards with.
It is only when such a group collective is formed and established will the voices of targeted individuals become stronger and more listened to.
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