[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
Except for the simple fact that a lot of people already have been upset for a long time.
The comic assumes that people are just now getting upset. If that’s your take every time a victim happens to be white, then that says more about you than it does about me.
Sure, some people have been upset already. But the difference in volume before and after the most recent killings shows that quite a lot of people are just now getting upset. If that isn’t you, good, but then why are you acting like this comic is a personal attack on you?
There’s always an increase in volume after an incident like this. The more visible it is, the greater the increase.
If you’re upset about an increase in momentum, then you’re kinda shooting the movement in the foot and that makes me question what your intentions are. Maybe you simply haven’t thought it through; I’m not gonna assume you’re a bad-faith actor planted to disrupt the resistance on so little evidence.
The problem is that this comic paints with a very broad brush, and it kinda leaves any white person who’s been actively protesting with no choice but to say “Well fuck me, then.”
Again, if your reaction to a comic pointing out that these atrocities have gone on longer than just the two latest killings is to take it personally and get defensive over it, if your reaction is “Well fuck me, then”, I think that says more about you than it does about the comic.
I’m simply pointing out that people have been aware of the problem and upset about it for a long time. But that’s inconvenient to the narrative you’re trying to push, so you keep ignoring it whenever I mention that.
The problem with the comic isn’t that it pointed out that there have been more than just two murders. The problem is that it painted an entire race of people (who have diverse worldviews and opinions) with the same broad brush, and uses that generalization to create a strawman argument, i.e. “white people don’t care when non-whites get murdered,” and you continue to refuse to acknowledge that not only is that counter-factual, but it’s also counter-productive (and racist).
And then you not-so-subtly insinuate that I must be racist if I have a problem with it? You’re so transparent.
That isn’t what I said.
It’s called subtext, and it’s not subtle.
You’re just going out of your way to assume the most bad faith interpretations you can think of for everything.
I seriously think you need to do some introspection about why this makes you react this way.
I don’t need to go very far out of my way to tell that this post is clearly directing some racially-charged micro-aggressions towards white people, but if you’re so stuck in your worldview that white people can never be done wrong and it’s okay to treat them in all the ways that you yourself would never tolerate being treated, then I guess we’re not going to find any middle ground…
I guess it’s too much to expect you to do any introspection, when you can always just blame white people for everything