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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.
This is blatantly racist, what the hell is wrong with you?
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.
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?