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[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

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok I don't think that is fair to be mad at people who didn't get mad about something they haven't heard about. Like, my cat died a month ago, and you didn't say anything, fuck you.

I'm sure some people didn't care because fuck brown people or whatever, but I think most people care now because they are actually hearing about it, maybe for the first time.

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Information doesn't reach people equally. The media is complicit for underrepresenting this issue, makes sense some people haven't heard about it yet. And the USA's racist culture of treating migrants like worthless cattle is guilty of making these stories sell less when the media actually tries to talk about them.

This is about people who were aware of the situation and dismissed, minimized, ignored it. Which is a lot of people. People I've been having interactions with for the past decade. It isn't about you. But there's still a lesson to be learned here: how come it hasn't reached you, and what can we change on a structural level to make sure this reaches people widely when it inevitably happens again. There's an actual conversation to be had, and the topic isn't guilt, it's stopping the death machine.

Being dismissive, feeling personally guilty, etc. is how you make sure nothing changes, and guarantees people will keep dying in those camps for decades to come because you and most of the other people in this thread were too busy making this all about yourselves instead of discussing the actual racial bias issues at hand.

Condolences regarding your cat. I know how it feels. Can be as bad as losing a close human. Been there multiple times throughout my life and it never gets better. Got three cats right now and I regularly wake up from nightmares in which I dream they died, you have my full empathy on this topic. I hope you're handling the grief well, if not therapy genuinely helps. Now that this is out of the way, stop throwing yourself as a shield in the way of people who are refusing to confront their racial bias. They don't need any protection, and you don't need to be offering them more excuses.

Sorry (not sorry) about lashing out but I'm getting genuinely pissed at this never ending influx of replies three days in. So many egotistical comments from losers jerking each other off all over the place. Done being polite, the fediverse has a gigantic fragility issue regarding race and masculinity, and I won't stop posting content that addresses both, won't stop replying to people trying to minimize those issues, and won't stop shutting up people who derail conversations by making them about themselves.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The group I volunteer for is trying to solve the problem you're talking about, educating people on stuff that happens South of the border and everything that most Americans haven't heard about. We're really well informed and keep up to date, but it's hard to know every name of every person the government has been murdering, because frankly, that's a lot of info. Not even just emotionally, it's just too much to grasp. It's too much to report on, and even if there was a news segment over every one of them, it would be a constant drone that eventually you wouldn't hear anymore.

Because of this though I've seen a lot of conservatives trying to pull a "gotcha" and say "well you didn't care about these people so obviously you're fake!"

Idk. Just thought it might be better to like, encourage people to learn more than shaming them for ignorance.

Thanks for the condolences on my cat, keep checking their kidneys when they are older.