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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.