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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.