[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
https://archive.ph/kOFRx
8 death this month alone.
39 deaths from last year is still double the highest in 2020.
Thanks for being of the problem. Not sure what you think you are defending here.
I think they’re not defending anything. They’re attacking racism.
They’re attacking people for getting upset about ICE murdering people. They’re not being part of the solution, even if those victims happened to be white. It’s not racist to be upset.
It is racist to claim people shouldn’t be upset.
There is absolutely a racial bias that it took white people dying for people to get upset at it to the level we are seeing now.
It’s weird that your interpretation is “you’re racist if your upset white people are dying”.
People were already upset even before white people got murdered on camera (yes, even white people were upset before this).
There’s always an uptick in momentum whenever a major incident like this gets caught on camera. That’s not a bad thing. And anyone saying it’s a bad thing simply because the victims happen to be white this time, are being racist and counter-productive.
My interpretation isn’t “you’re racist if you’re upset people are dying.” OP is claiming people are racist if they’re upset white people are dying. My interpretation is that OP is racist for claiming that people are racist for being upset that white people are dying.
Try to keep your stories straight.
Why does it need to be a white person clearly being murdered on camera for it to become a large issue? Non-white people are constantly getting brutalised by the police. Kids are constantly being put in cages and being separated from their parents. And then a white person dies and everyone’s like “If Kamala was in charge we’d all be at brunch right now”.
There is absolutely a racial component going on here and if you interpret highlighting racism as racism then that’s on you.
You’re continuing to ignore the fact that it was already a large issue that people were upset about even before white people were brutalized and murdered on camera. People are upset about children being put in cages and separated from their parents. And people were already pointing out how we would all be at brunch right now if Kamala Harris (coincidentally, a woman of color and daughter of immigrants) had been elected.
It’s strawmen all the way down. Even the part where you claim that what I’m calling racism is simply a matter of someone “highlighting racism.”
There’s always a racial component. Whether a white person is murdered, or a POC is murdered, no matter what people like you are always going to take every excuse to label every white person as racist. Don’t be surprised when people stop caring what you think.
I’m not denying there weren’t people who recognised there was a problem. But there are a lot who didn’t and only started paying attention when it affected them. That’s a problem because if you only take issue with these things because it affects you, then you’ll only advocate for solutions that protect yourself rather then the rotten system as a whole. That’s how you wind up with people saying “if only ICE were given more training” or “Trump should’ve gone through the senate before invading Venezeula” or “If Kamala had won we’d all be at brunch right now”.
Okay well if you’re just gonna make strawmen and deflect any counterexamples with “well those just don’t count because that’s not what I’m talking about” then we’re not going to get anywhere.
I guess everyone should just pack up and go home, because it’s so offensive that people are out protesting after some white people died. Hey everybody, it’s actually racist if you’re protesting against the regime right now. I learned that on lemmy.
Fuck’s sake.