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I am happy that people are mad about the death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But I am also saddened that it took their deaths for people to care. If I was killed by ICE next week, would anyone care? Do I not deserve angry protesters?
Highly disappointed with this comment section right now. If you feel divided by this post then maybe take time to reflect. You're not a villain for only being sad about he recent killings, but getting mad at Bad for posting this is a shame.
People have been caring for a mong time. These killing are just so violent, so obviously unjustified, and most importantly, they have been filmed with many many angles, that it show how full of hate ICE and MAGA really are.
People were already upset even before Good and Pretti were murdered. Why are you pretending people didn't care before?
I never said people didn't care, but I definitely didn't see a lot about the previous victims compared to Good and Pretti, in fact I never heard about González and Garcia.
It's just a concerning and upsetting trend I've seen.
I had heard of them. I read articles about them. I was upset for them.
Apparently their murders weren't caught on video. That has much more to do with it than any imagined racial component.
The entire point of the OP comic was saying "white people didn't care until white people died," and it wasn't even subtle.
I'm white. I heard about them. Garcia lives down the street from me and I have tears in my eyes over his death, over his 9 year old daughter who no longer has a dad
I'm not sure what the point of your argument is here. You have people uniting, in solidarity, against a common enemy. Do you need more?
You're seeing the effectiveness of community organisation efforts to impact larger groups of people. That community was largely established in response to events like Floyd, González and Garcia.
The event with Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by community members. The evidence is unequivocal.
There was zero justification, and it's documented. That is why there's such a major uptick in response. ..and that documentation was in direct response to the prior wrongdoing which was not in response to white people being threatened.
This is a lot of people, from different backgrounds, looking out for each other. What more do you want?
The trick to getting people to be outraged about your murder hasn't much to do with being black or white or brown
It's mostly about the murder being on-camera, from multiple angles, filmed by people and released to public scrutiny immediately
As well as it being very extremely clear that it was an unnecessary killing, a deliberate murder.
So, if you're gonna get killed next week, please make sure there are plenty of witnesses with cameras all around you.