I see a lot of comments like “America is unrecognizable now.” No, this is always how America has been. Difference is now it’s happening to white people and not just POCs and other minorities, and the quiet parts are being said out loud instead of staying quiet.
So much this. And I gotta love ‘The Wire’ for doing a comprehensive view on society from different angles, clearly highlighting the “wrong zip code” effect: bodies that don’t matter because they were black people in a poor neighborhood. Only hurt/dead white people in rich areas get people even remotely interested, especially when looking at the big picture instead of single cases.
Even in Joker that was one of the main point that’s said in the movie: “had it been me the one in the ground you would have stepped on me without even looking down. But because they were rich white blond guys it’s a tragedy” (not his exact words, I know).
That line is heartbreaking when you learn that Joaquin Phoenix’s IRL brother died of a heroin overdose in the streets of New York while people stepped over his dying and dead body.
It’s only happening to a small subset of white people though. This is how fascism operates. They keep taking chunks out of the complacent masses so they don’t all rise up at once. That’s why solidarity is so important.
Let’s hope they bit off more than they can chew this time but that remains to be seen.
Unfortunately the US was founded on the opposite of solidarity.
Well, where empathy fails fear might succeed. 🤷
White people have been murdered by cops before and people still didn’t give a shit. Since those people were young men and often poor or on the spectrum/handicapped. Suburban Libs start caring now because the victim is a white woman living in suburbia.
Native Americans, Mexican Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans all signing in the background…
Wasn’t she LGBTQ?
IDK, I think most people were just as outraged about George Floyd.
To me it’s important to raise the biggest possible stink about ICE goons actually killing someone, regardless of skin tone.
And it’s not like we didn’t see this coming a mile away, and she’s probably not the last one to die by ICE goons, not to speak of the people who died in detention.
I still have normal folks argue that if Floyd had just complied, it would have never been an issue. This despite the guilty conviction for murder, clearly indicating that the cop was the one in the wrong.
People will always blame the victim, it’s easier for them to accept, because if they defend the victim, that means they could be one. People will always prefer the explanation that allows them to feel superior.
Did we all just forget that the nationwide protests that started with George Floyd’s murder started with the police in Minneapolis? No, it’s not the first time and it’s not even Minneapolis’ first time.
The correct message is not “lol stupid libs”. It’s “Hey, you. You’re finally awake”, ideally followed by tips about how to organize resistance.
Native Americans are the OG “first-timers” for these barbarians but they didn’t even leave enough of them to tell the story. 😐
Not true, Native American historians exist today and tell their own stories. Most people just don’t know and don’t listen. Ned Blackhawk is a highly notable example. There are roughly 13 million Native North Americans in the US and there perspective can be heard if you are willing to look for it. AIM is effectively recent history. I want to be clear that I am not critizing you here, I just think that this common mentality glosses over their very active oppression and their fight against it.
Thanks for the correction, man, and fuck the oppressors who continue doing the work of their forefathers. Hell will be too kind for these beasts.
Ah yes, the famous political leanings: Lib and Black.
newsflash, it always was a police state, they just arnt hiding it anymore. consistently all the MSM had significant amount copaganda on thier networks to “normalize” the bad cop as a good cop, this also extends to military propaganda too,.
You clowns being unable to remember what happened in that exact city 6-7 years ago is why we’re in this shit
Edited because I’m bad at time and we’re living in hell
So now that the mask has fallen, can we have class solidarity??
Its fun to accuse murder victims of white privilege? That’s a weird hobby.
He’s not making fun of the victims, he’s making fun of the pearl-clutchers.
Not to defend cops in any way shape or form, but ICE aren’t technically police.
ICE are a Secret police. Their sole loyalty is to Donald Trump’s regime and their sole function is political violence against minorities and anyone anyone who stands against them or their ideology. They are allowed not just to use deadly force for any reason but to actively seek out death for the smallest of infractions.
The police get three months of training, ICE get given a gun and told to attack not just minorities, but anyone in the room with them. Citizenship means nothing. Laws mean nothing.
They then ship you off to a concentration camp where you cannot get help far away from anyone who can object, often in another country.
ICE is literally how the Blue Live Matter people wants the regular police to be, a solely politicial force that attacks any person who doesn’t belong to the in group for merely being part of the outgroup. It is literally how police with the mask off.
Upvoted because correct take and humrous, but the text at the bottom of the top panel should have been made to at least look simialar to the subtitle text of the bottom panel …
Today in being pedantic…
It will never cease to amaze me how much even ostensibly left wing Americans give the Republicans a free pass to be as awful as they like and not get criticised at all.
Good. Stay divided. That’d make things easier.
