[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

https://thebad.website/comic/vanilla_ice

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    “Get fucked with your white victim complex. White people are so fragile. White people this, white people that” You’re sure displaying a lot of open hatred for white people for someone claiming white people can never be done wrong. I guess hypocrisy and double standards are okay for anyone who isn’t white?

    As much as I hate JD Vance and am reluctant to back anything that he says, you’re kind of proving his point about the whole “White people shouldn’t have to apologize for being white” thing.

    I never denied that systemic racism or white privilege exist, but attacking individual white people for the original sin of having fair complexion is not dismantling systemic racism, and white privilege isn’t some absolute thing that transcends social class.

    Everyone defending this comic has been doing so by distorting any arguments against it into strawmen by misrepresenting what people are saying in criticism of it. Your comment is no different.

    So you can, hopefully, understand when POCs vent their frustration from time to time when the needle of political will in this country seems to only ever shift when enough white people are caught in the blowback. Hell, white allies fucking realize this.

    How do you rectify that statement with the enormous turn-out to the BLM protests in 2020? Or are you just going to continue to ignore any facts that contradict what you’re saying?

    How do you explain the enormous No Kings protests that happened before Renee Good or Alex Pretti were murdered?

    You’re not going to have any white allies left if you keep calling them racist every time they protest after a white person gets murdered by the feds.

    You get your head out of your ass. It’s not abrasive to you because you aren’t white. That’s the same logic as a white person saying a comic mocking BLM “isn’t even that abrasive.” You’re incapable of hearing and considering other people’s perspective, so I don’t want to hear you complaining about how supposedly callous white people are when literally millions of white people have been quietly listening to the perspectives if POCs for at least half a decade now, and getting called racist if they even chime in with the slightest input or nuance.

    Am I thin-skinned? Then maybe you’re being thin-skinned if you’re so upset about white people protesting. See how that works? How easy it is to attack someone’s character based solely on them being a different race from yourself? If you don’t like it happening to you, then don’t do it to others. Otherwise you’re just normalizing racism. If you’re saying it’s okay for literally anyone but white people to be racist, then your same logic can be used by white people to justify being racist. That’s the thing about double-standards: they’re not binding because they’re not universalizable.

    If you want this whole thing to be a race war, just say so. But if it’s about ordinary civilians against a fascist government, then stop holding people’s fucking skin color against them.