Safety sign taken down because of "trigger"
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Lilith — 5 years ago(July 08, 2020 11:00 PM)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayor-orders-traffic-sign-reading-all-lives-matter-to-be-taken-down/ar-BB16v66B?ocid=spartanntp
A traffic sign in Melrose
that read, in part
, "All Lives Matter" has been changed by order of the mayor.
Mayor Paul Brodeur shared a photo of the traffic sign to his Facebook page on Wednesday. In that photo, the sign reads
"The safety of all lives matter."
"I have ordered that it be taken down immediately and am taking steps to find out how this happened," Brodeur wrote in his post. "I apologize to the residents of Melrose."
The traffic sign is still up in the area of 236 Main St., but no longer displays the message. The sign appears to belong to the Melrose Police Department.
"The phrase 'All Lives Matter' is a trigger,"
Brodeur told NewsCenter 5's John Atwater. "It does not lead to an atmosphere where we can make progress, (where) we can have uncomfortable conversations and try to move it forward."
A Melrose resident who was parked near the sign told a WCVB photographer that the sign featured the following message:
"The speed limit is 25 mph. Please drive safely. The safety of all lives matter."
"I would prefer that it said anything else but 'All Lives Matter' for right now with everything that's going on," the resident said. "I don't think that it was, probably, appropriate to have in our city."
This is happening over a traffic sign. And it's happening over the wording of PART of a traffic sign that's talking about the lives of all the members within that community asking them to drive safe with respect to the speed limit.
Safety matters, and lives matter, and traffic rules matter. This feels like just looking for something to be triggered by when really, it's just a sign asking people to respect the speed limit for everyone's safety.
In this particular context of a lone traffic sign, this seems excessive.
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Lilith — 5 years ago(July 08, 2020 11:02 PM)
PS: If someone disagrees with me, as always, I am open to dialogue. I always am open to dialogue, and discussion, and would not shut off a conversation.
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Cerridwen — 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 12:25 AM)
^ This. The subject-verb agreement is incorrect. "All lives matter" is an emotionally-provocative slogan tied to a racist movement whilst "safety matters," which is what the sign attempted to say, is not.
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Lilith — 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 02:27 AM)
It doesn't appear another letter would fit on the sign.
It strikes me more as nit-picking than provocative when they town has this one road sign posted reminding people that to consider that lives matter.
Am I to understand that moving forward, from now on, those three words will no longer be tolerated in any form, regardless of context, for any purpose whatsoever, even as part of a larger sentence. Ever? There's a boycott on putting those three words together in any capacity for any reason and in any format?
I'm trying to truly emphasize that I'm asking this as part of a genuine ongoing discussion because it's part of something I sincerely cannot comprehend (ie: regarding who has the power to designate who does and doesn't have control over who does and doesn't have the ability to put certain words together regardless of intent, including if someone is projecting intent).
Along those lines, I agree with you that an alternative for the sign could be "safety matters" and the same message could be conveyed. No argument from me on that. (Still curious about the questions).
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Cerridwen — 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 03:13 AM)
This sign doesn't exist in a vacuum. Considering current cultural context, of course "ALL LIVES MATTER" will be incendiary to some passersby. Of course it will. Whomever designed this sign was oblivious at best and ignorant at worst. Your feigned confusion is transparent; you're smart enough to know that this result is not surprising, whether or not you feel it's warranted.
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Lilith — 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 05:11 PM)
It's not feigned confusion because I'm genuinely confused at why three words are getting targeted and used as incendiary if used in any context, ever, whatever the form or intent. THAT, I do find insulting. It's insulting to the community as if they can't tell the difference between people trying to use it as an inflammatory response, and traffic workers trying to remind people that their driving the speed limit is to protect everyone's lives.
It's at these junctures that I find things to be ridiculous. It's at these junctures where it feels like people are looking for things to be pissed about when we have bigger things to be angry about than street signs about speed limits.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 02:51 AM)
Lilith, it's grammatically incorrect. It should be the "Safety of All Lives Matters". For that reason alone it should be changed. To begin with though, it's a rather silly sign. Just get to the point.
SLOW DOWN. SPEED LIMIT WILL BE ENFORCED. But "The safety of all lives matter" is an ignorant thing to put on a traffic sign. I won't defend it.
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— 5 years ago(July 10, 2020 03:39 AM)Whoever created the message is either intentionally screwing with people or unintentionally bad at grammar. Either way it’s tone deaf to the current state of affairs in this country.
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