[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
Yep.
People should’ve already been angry. But better late than never.
Yeah. Memes like this are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Is there an issue? Sure. Is this the right time for that issue? I'm not so sure about that one.
This is an opportunity to build solidarity that lasts beyond this crisis, which will be vital in preventing the next one, as well as in destroying the systems of oppression that got us here in the first place.
I don’t believe there’s a bad time to be pointing out racial bias.
The movement is barely getting started, having a proper sense of scale by getting the full picture of ICE’s death toll only makes it more unbearable, that should make the movement more motivated, not less.
When it discourages people acting for change from fear or guilt around racism. It seems like a purposefully timed red herring.
how tf is saying you should've been mad sooner 'discouraging' being mad now? the only discouragement here is you tools saying - yet again, for the infinite time - that it's 'not the right time' to discuss racism.
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The other side of this coin is:
Why weren’t you speaking out about this two weeks ago? Why wait till people are outraged and moving toward taking action to say “Sure, you guys are all up in arms when it’s a white person…”
Like I said, it’s always time, except for right when people are about to fight back and you kill enthusiasm and momentum. This seems so obvious I don’t understand how you don’t understand, and it makes me think you are right wing troll. Because if you truly care about race equality, why choose now. The fight that might come would benefit EVERYONE who isn’t a racist, rich, white person.
The answer should be obvious; it's shame. Shame alters peoples perception of themselves and their role in a larger populace. You probably don't want to diminish their capacity to act, as that will yield less effective action overall.
"People getting upset when white people are murdered is racial bias" Get fucked.
Don't act like people are demotivated by the scale of the violence. People are demotivated because you're calling them racist for being upset when the victims happened to be white, when chances are these same people were already upset even before white people were murdered.
Stop making up this imaginary scenario in which white people never cared until the violence was done against a white person. You're ignoring the countless efforts that white people have made previously for racial justice movements, all the white people who supported BLM, and all the white people who have been out protesting against ICE since even before they murdered Renee Good.
Damn you mad.
Done putting absurd words in my mouth anytime soon or do you have a few more comments like that left in you?
The words truly are absurd, but they're a direct paraphrase of your message. Self-conscious wolves moment.
But go ahead and ignore the part about facts that directly contradict your claims. It wouldn't be the internet if you couldn't conveniently ignore all the evidence that says you should re-examine your position.
I'm not sure you're allowed to discuss the concept of self-awareness.
That's what a fascist would say.
People were already angry. Why is everyone acting like people are just now suddenly getting upset?
If everyone's effort gets erased every time a white person is made a victim, and suddenly we can't be upset anymore because a victim happened to be white, then what are we truly accomplishing?
What's the real message behind this post?
That’s pretty much what I mean.
This post is insinuating that a number of the people upset now should have been upset when it wasn’t white people dying.
And I agree. Many of us were already upset.
But making that point this way is unhelpful. It feels like potentially a way to divide those who are trying to resist. “I was angry before it was mainstream, you new protesters are racists.”
Which could very well not be the intention of the person making the point. They could be trying to simply say, “Understand that people had already been killed, and if you knew that and weren’t angry, be better” or something.
But it is so incredibly easy to make people in big tents infight and focus on idealogical purity rather than uniting to fight the opposition. And it’s something we need to avoid if we want to be successful.
When it comes to fighting fascism, my enemy’s enemy is my friend.
So on the assumption that this comic was posted in good faith, I think merciful correction or gentle disagreement is more useful.
You're definitely right about that, but they're just gonna double down on calling our arguments strawmen and digging in their heels, when in reality they're the ones making racist strawmen...
Lemmings gonna lem, I guess? 🤷♀️