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Arizona lawmakers have unanimously passed "Emily's Law," a bill named for 14-year-old Emily Pike that would create a turquoise alert system for missing Indigenous people.

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance but how is this different than an amber alert?

It seems to me, that it allows bigots to silence the turquoise alert, but keep the amber alert on. That way, they're not bothered by missing "less-than-human" alerts. It makes no sense to me to make another alert type. Either we treat all people groups as equal humans, or we don't deserve to be part of society. There is no in between. But... maybe I missed something in the linked site.