[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
They’re not implying all white people are racist or that noone ever cared until white people did die.
But there is a racial component that led lots of people to ignore the issue and only start caring the way we’re seeing now, now that white people have died. And for far too many of those peope, they still think this is a recent phenomena and not inherent to the system, and that means their anger is misplaced at how the system is being used and not against the system itself.
Some people will always find a reason to claim white people aren’t upset enough, or aren’t upset for the right reasons, or aren’t upset at the right people, or weren’t upset soon enough.
I heard the same shit back in 2020. White people came out to support BLM and all you hear is “You should have been upset sooner; it took getting a murder on video before white people cared.”
Is that really what matters? Or is what matters the fact that people do care and are upset?
How is calling people racist for supposedly only caring when a victim is white “not implying that all white people are racist or that noone ever cared until white people did die?”
If someone posted a comic making sweeping generalizations about “Black/brown people don’t care about such-and-such until suddenly it effects them and only then do they care and that’s clearly WRONG!” It would be a completely different story. Everyone would call it out as racist and it would probably get taken down immediately, and I can guarantee you wouldn’t be in the comments arguing that “it’s not actually racist because it didn’t say all black/brown people.”
So try looking in a mirror before you apply double standards that convenience your own cognitive biases.
But they should have been upset sooner. It’s great that they’re upset now but if they don’t realise they should’ve been upset sooner then their anger will be misdirected at the actual cause of the issue.
And it’s not a sweeping generalisation at every white person. Pointing out systemic racism isn’t racism. If you get offended by that then really you’re telling on yourself.
But they were upset sooner. All of you keep making the same circular argument, “People should have already been upset!” They fucking WERE! How many times does that need to be said?
Making sweeping generalizations about all white people is not “pointing out systemic racism,” it’s just racism. If you get offended by this then you’re telling on yourself.
I’VE ALREADY SAID THEY WEREN’T SAYING NO ONE EVER CARED.
So apparently it has to be said a hundred fucking times before you stop strawmanning.
THEY AREN’T making a sweeping generalisation of all white people - they ARE pointing out systemic racism. The only people who get triggered by these things are racists. You’re a fucking racist. You saw a post being critical of the response white people are having and got offended because it couldn’t possibly be that systemic racism exists, surely they must be calling out all white people or something.
Everything you’re asserting is false, but if you’re just going to call me racist then I’ll just fuck off and when everyone else who’s been upset about ICE stops caring because you’re calling them racist and they fuck off too, good luck standing off with ICE when a large portion of the country isn’t on board with you because you called them all racist for getting upset about you making broad generalizations about them based on their race.