Erik Uden 🍑
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
On 7th of January 2005 German police burned Oury Jalloh alive behind closed doors, lied about it, and to this day got away with it.
21 years later, on 7th of January 2026, American ICE agents killed Renee Good in front of multiple cameras, immediately lied about it, and made the whole world repeat that lie, despite us seeing the execution of a U.S. citizen in front of our eyes.
The final nail in the coffin, the final straw of humiliation, is not even having the decency to make up a good lie. Suddenly the nicest women on earth can become a violent killer trying to run people over, and the actual violent masked killer present turns into this heroic figure simply trying to protect people.
She was at the wrong time in the wrong place, not even part of any protest. Suddenly, people like her become 'activists' (e.g. “activist judges”) even though they are teachers, journalists, public workers, or just at the wrong time in the wrong place.
You're not a violent “activist” because you are one, you become one when it's needed to justify the government killing you.
Make a group of people synonymous with crime, suddenly their subjugation becomes justice. Even if she was an activist or an immigrant, even if she didn't act right in that moment, even if she was one of the protestors, nothing justifies her killing. The fact the U.S. government already created the public basis to disregard anyone's death or opinion if they are “antifa”, “immigrants”, “transgender”, “woke”, or simply an “activist” (whatever that means) is clearly wrong, especially because they can extend these labels and apply them to you, so your death no longer matters in the public eye.
Erik Uden 🍑@ErikUden@mastodon.de
The famous “First They Came” Niemöller poem is sometimes incorrectly reduced to say “first they came for the socialists” instead of “first they came for the communists”, which I strongly disagree with, as the usage of the word communist was a specific decision, as that term describes a group that people instinctively didn't care about at the time.
Take a group and make it so people instinctively won't care about them, such as immigrants, “activists”, communists, muslims (“terrorists”, “jihadists”, “islamists”). Then, begin expanding that definition.
To fascist Laura Loomer you're a communist if you have pronouns in your bio, and she doesn't care about dead communists. After all, they're criminals, inherently they must be and hence any action against them is justified. Make a group of people synonymous with crime and then their subjugation can be framed as justice.
Renée Good had kids and never even participated in any protest. But she's a communist and deserved to die, right? After all, who cares for dead communists?
Remember, not so long ago the same people told us we need to mourn Charlie Kirk, and anyone mocking his death, or even just pointing out the fact that his death was the result of the world he created, was subsequently fired from their job.