It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
There is something that happens when victims and offenders meet. Offenders and victims are able to see each other as human beings, with names and families.
I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.
Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.