After the guy dumped dirt on the memorial, I feel like this is pretty poor optics even if it’s something the City needs to move forward on right now.

  • IdleCeremonyEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I have so many conflicting thoughts about this whole mess…

    • Conducting the search seems dangerous and wildly impractical.
    • Maybe it wouldn’t have become so dangerous and impractical if we had taken action on this much earlier. The delays have made it worse and each continued delay makes it even moreso I expect.
    • MMIWG has been an openly ignored problem for so damn long, maybe dangerous and wildly impractical is justified to make a statement about taking it seriously.
    • I cannot and will not judge the activists and families for pushing for the search. I have no way to comprehend how their loss compounds with the systemic discrimination they’ve faced their entire lives and how all of that is exacerbated by the accumulated generational trauma they share. They get to be as mad as they want.
    • I do not know what the solution here is, and I’m very glad I’m not in any position of power where I’d be expected to make this decision
    • This whole situation makes me sad for the families and angry at the police and government, but that’s a pretty standard position for me.
    • JesseEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      All valid points. My take would be though with regards to your third point. The problem with MMIWG is there’s been too many ‘statements’ and not enough actual productive action taken. And this would be the opposite of actual productive action, spending 150-200 million dollars to comb through approx 60 000 tons of landfill over 3 years while putting peoples safety at risk to maybe have barely a minuscule chance at recovering what is now, tragically, likely an unrecognizable pile of organic matter. I can understand emotionally why the families want to anyway, but it’s just not a responsible use of time and effort, let alone money. That said, if the gov’t says that money and effort is better spent elsewhere, I would hold them to that, and say that they take that dollar amount and actually put it towards other, more helpful MMIWG causes.