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Vancouver Island landfill ordered to remove and destroy 'triggering' Halloween sign (bc.ctvnews.ca)

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Similar signs have graced landfills and residential front yards ahead of Halloween for decades.

But the dark joke no longer lands in light of the discovery of human remains in a Manitoba landfill last year, and the belief that other Indigenous women were similarly murdered and discarded near Winnipeg.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no fault here, imo...the person that put up the sign probably wasn't thinking about events in Winnipeg. But that doesn't change the fact that someone was killed and thrown away like trash. This sign pokes fun (albeit unintentionally) at a very real and raw situation. It's fair to ask them to remove the sign, so as not to put the families of these missing women through more pain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, everything could trigger some group based on that logic. What about a zombie pictured with missing limbs at the local recreation center triggering amputees. What about a nerf whistling football at a school setting off refugees who'd escaped bombing in their home country.

Why does this scenario warrant action, when other similar situations do not?

There's a line that needs to be drawn somewhere, and I honestly don't think this sign is on the wrong side of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not every group of people has recently, within the last year, had to contend with two of their members being murdered and thrown in a landfill, and then it becoming a major national political campaign issue.