[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
Stop trying to divide us when we are trying to unite. The white people that are getting killed are the ones trying to help and warn their neighbors. Keep making them feel guilty and they may just give up.
I agree. I'm minority and I support starting to be pissed at this at any level and time. Just stick to it until its not a problem anymore.
Reciprocated solidarity forges alliances that endure long after the immediate threat.
This. People were already protesting ICE long before Renée Good got killed. The racists, white supremacists, and nazis are still not protesting today. They don't care if a murdered protestor is white. A Nazi is going to view any white protesters as race traitors. What's happening right now is a dramatic shift in the scope of what ICE is doing. Rather than simply targeting immigrants, it's being deployed against protestors and in crowd control efforts. The extent of people they're targeting and how they're targeting them is dramatically expanding as well.
In 2025, at least 32 people died in custody after being detained by ICE. This has caused massive protests nationwide.
But in 2025, there were only 2 people known to have been shot and killed by ICE:
Silverio Villegas González - September 12 - undocumented immigrant shot and killed by ICE in his car after dropping his kids off at school in Chicago. Video circulated online of his window getting broken out and him getting dragged out of the car after being shot.
Keith Porter - December 31 - African American father shot and killed in Los Angeles while allegedly setting off fireworks. There are no videos of what happened.
The first people shot and killed by ICE in 2026 include:
Renée Good - January 7 - woman shot and killed in her vehicle in Minneapolis. Videos of the incident circulated online. She was not actively protesting.
Alex Pretti - January 24 - protestor murdered execution style in Minneapolis for attempting to help a woman get safely to a sidewalk.
That's it. This image includes completely incorrect information. Jaime Alanís Garcia died from breaking his neck after allegedly falling 30 feet from a building while a cannabis farm was being raided by ICE in Ventura County, California. ICE and CBP claims they were not targeting him. There's no video of the incident.
Stuff is dramatically escalating, and it's presumably about to get much much worse.
Why do you see it as divisive to point out how many more victims there have been? If your immediate reaction to this comic was to get defensive, I think you should take a minute and do some introspection.
It's more the implication that the white victims shouldn't matter and people shouldn't be upset because the victims happened to be white this time.
While also conveniently ignoring the fact that people were already upset about ICE violence even before they killed white people...
Nowhere does the comic say that though?
The subtext is glaringly obvious, and pretending not to see it is disingenuous at best.
Nowhere does the comic say that any victim doesn't matter. Nowhere does the comic say you shouldn't be upset. Quite the opposite, the comic says you should've been upset a long time ago.
I think the fact that you're reading the most aggressive interpretation you can think of into it in order to find an excuse to be defensive says more about yourself than it does about the comic.
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...
Lol, fucking fragile white people man...
If people getting upset about others making generalizations about their race is being "fragile," then I don't want to hear a fucking soul complaining about racism when it's directed at them.
Imagine if someone in 2020 said "lol, fucking fragile black people man..."
Cause that's exactly what you're doing. But I don't expect you to have any self-awareness, because you're probably ideologically committed to the bit where it's impossible to be racist against white people.
Get fucked with your white victim complex, dude.
You're all over this damn post going red in the face not understanding what exactly folks are talking about here. Or just not caring.
The US has a systemic racism problem. By extension, white people within the US are in a visibly privileged position. To deny this is... I don't know, something fucking else.
So you can, hopefully, understand when POCs vent their frustration from time to time when the needle of political will in this country seems to only ever shift when enough white people are caught in the blowback. Hell, white allies fucking realize this.
Lastly, get your head out of your ass. This comic isn't even that abrasive with the truths that it reveals. You're just thin-skinned.
"Get fucked with your white victim complex. White people are so fragile. White people this, white people that" You're sure displaying a lot of open hatred for white people for someone claiming white people can never be done wrong. I guess hypocrisy and double standards are okay for anyone who isn't white?
As much as I hate JD Vance and am reluctant to back anything that he says, you're kind of proving his point about the whole "White people shouldn't have to apologize for being white" thing.
I never denied that systemic racism or white privilege exist, but attacking individual white people for the original sin of having fair complexion is not dismantling systemic racism, and white privilege isn't some absolute thing that transcends social class.
Everyone defending this comic has been doing so by distorting any arguments against it into strawmen by misrepresenting what people are saying in criticism of it. Your comment is no different.
How do you rectify that statement with the enormous turn-out to the BLM protests in 2020? Or are you just going to continue to ignore any facts that contradict what you're saying?
How do you explain the enormous No Kings protests that happened before Renee Good or Alex Pretti were murdered?
You're not going to have any white allies left if you keep calling them racist every time they protest after a white person gets murdered by the feds.
You get your head out of your ass. It's not abrasive to you because you aren't white. That's the same logic as a white person saying a comic mocking BLM "isn't even that abrasive." You're incapable of hearing and considering other people's perspective, so I don't want to hear you complaining about how supposedly callous white people are when literally millions of white people have been quietly listening to the perspectives if POCs for at least half a decade now, and getting called racist if they even chime in with the slightest input or nuance.
Am I thin-skinned? Then maybe you're being thin-skinned if you're so upset about white people protesting. See how that works? How easy it is to attack someone's character based solely on them being a different race from yourself? If you don't like it happening to you, then don't do it to others. Otherwise you're just normalizing racism. If you're saying it's okay for literally anyone but white people to be racist, then your same logic can be used by white people to justify being racist. That's the thing about double-standards: they're not binding because they're not universalizable.
If you want this whole thing to be a race war, just say so. But if it's about ordinary civilians against a fascist government, then stop holding people's fucking skin color against them.
Are you genuinely an idiot? You can't see beyond your own false sense of victimhood.
Lol go cry somewhere else, man.
I'm not upset, you moron.
Fuck off dude, don't you have any hobbies besides talking shit to white people? Fuck. I'm not the one going around telling people their skin color makes them bad people, but after talking with you I'm kinda inclined to not give a shit anymore the next time anyone talks about racial justice.
Like, fuck you, I tried doing my part, but if all I can expect for the rest of my life is assholes like you telling me it's not enough, then fight your own damn battles. But stay out of the way when people are protesting against the fascists in power because quite frankly no one gives a fuck if you're upset that people are angry about white people getting murdered.
Color me shocked that you're so easily disuaded from caring about racial justice.
I never once said white people are bad... jesus again with this victim complex.
What the fuck do you think we've been doing as POCs for, like, the entire existence of the US?
Acknowledging that there's far more to do before we achieve true racial justice isn't saying it's not enough. It's saying we still have more to do.
I am at these protests, you idiot.
Your comments throughout this entire post tells me that you're not an ally, you never really were. You, like specifically you, are just a very fragile person. Just a comfortable neolib.
I guess it's too much to expect you to do any introspection, when you can always just blame white people for everything
Also not what I said.
If pointing out a racial bias is all it takes to make some people give up, then… that sounds like a pretty big issue idk
Nice try twisting my words.
Yes, you are right that we all should have been up in arms sooner, but we weren’t. It sucks. And here we are now, fighting the same fight; can we all agree who the real enemy is and focus on that for the moment?
Why pretend people weren't already upset about ICE before they killed Good and Pretti? Why feed this person's delusions that white people didn't care before this?
That's kind of insulting to all the people (yes, white people included) who have been protesting and actively resisting since this whole thing started, don't you think?
Am I pretending that?
Good and Pretti themselves were both white frontline protesters, among many others who have been at it for a long time. They're role models.
Whatever reading comprehension disaster is going on in this comment section is something else
If you aren't arguing that white people have only begun protesting/caring about things now because they think it affects them, then your comic does not make its point clearly.
In any case, after double-checking, two of the non-white people you directly point out as shot and killed by ICE were undocumented. I'm not actually sure one was even shot since skimming a few sources indicates he fell off a roof and died from that during a raid. Obviously being undocumented doesn't justify getting killed, but that's another difference (citizen vs. undocumented noncitizen) between Good and Pretti that you've chosen to ignore in favor of solely basing your comic on them being white or not.
Also, AFAIK the Porter incident doesn't have video footage (can't remember if the others do either). The Good and Pretti cases have significant footage, so it's particularly easy to spread clips over social media.
Oddly enough, you just contradicted your own message and then blamed it on my reading comprehension. Way to go.
Maybe try examining how your comic reflects on people like Good and Pretti, who you yourself describe as white frontline protestors, and who gave their lives while protesting against what's going on.
Maybe don't paint an entire race of people with a broad brush, and then people won't call you racist.
Well good, now that you're focused on the moment, it's a perfect time to remind you (or make you aware) that ICE actually murdered many more people than most think, that there are thousands of people "lost in the system" that ICE can't track and whose lawyers and families can't find, and that the way the agency operates is a systemic issue that has existed for over a decade, long before the recent escalations.
Now you know the actual scope of your enemy: defunding them isn't enough, that shit needs to be pulled by the roots and dismantled piece by piece until there's not a trace of them left. If it's not done all the way through, it won't end with Trump (after all it continued operating and killing under Biden). If people only protest the public murders instead of the very existence of ICE and their concentration camp system well… the camps will still be there.
See, that's exactly what I'm doing. Making sure we're fighting the same fight, and understanding who the enemy really is.
I love how badly you're getting ratio'd.
Take this opportunity for self reflection.
This comment section is the only platform on which I'm being ratio'd fwiw.
Been making satire long enough to not care much when people get mad, I stand firmly by the things I write.
Might be an indication that this audience thinks more deeply about what you're implying. Which 100% tracks with my experience on every social media platform compared to Lemmy.
The Fediverse suffers from extreme whiteness, that's all there is to it.
I think that's a better explanation when comparing the nature/contents of the conversations it's spawning on different platforms.
Not the first time I'm noticing it either.
You would have absolutely no fucking way of knowing that is true. Go ahead, keep attacking people you pretend are your allies. Definitely what's needed now.
These incidents are totally only getting attention because of race and Lemmy is the most racist. Totally nothing to do with the other killings you list not being on video. Totally not that /s
You talk as if whiteness is a disease, and then you act all self-righteous when people treat you like you're being a bigot?
You're doing so much to stop ICE by telling people they shouldn't care about these incidents simply because the victims were white.
It's not even a strawman, that's literally what the post is about and what some people are defending...
This is blatantly racist, what the hell is wrong with you?
I don't think you know what satire is
From the Oxford dictionary
I doubt anything can be more satirical than making a comic that portrays in an exaggerated way some people's blind spot for racial issues until they affect them personally in the context of contemporary politics.
Guessing your definition is "things I agree with are satire and things that upset me aren't" :)
The only satire you seem to produce is how you try to defend your work.
Please check which of these you think your comic is
[ ] humour [ ] irony [ ] exaggeration [ ] ridicule
I'm not sure why you think I'm upset. If I'm upset by anything its you whining about a handful of American deaths while Israel is committing a genocide. Why are you so racially biased?
Reading comprehender.
Is it not a racial bias when you say "People shouldn't care about this because the victims were white this time."
If people are upset about ICE violence, why break the momentum and sow division simply because the victims weren't POCs? What are you trying to accomplish?