Far-right media and online MAGA trolls have been busy painting Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was murdered in cold blood by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, as a “leftist radical” who made bad choices. As someone who deserved to die, not only because she supposedly threatened an officer (she didn’t), but also because she was queer.

Unsurprisingly, Laura Loomer and Dennis Michael Lynch are two of the trolls who have been dehumanizing Good on social media for this reason. They are highlighting her lesbian relationship and use of pronouns as dog whistles. Unsurprisingly, their depravity knows no bounds.

Good had three children, but they are not alone in the world, as some media has portrayed. She was with her wife when she was gunned down, who was sobbing uncontrollably on the ground next to the couple’s dog following this vicious crime. I cannot begin to fathom the horror or the sorrow she is experiencing.

Good was a legal observer. She was a poet. She was a mother. She was a wife. But even if she were none of those things, she was a human being. And no human being deserves what was done to her.

But there is another point, one that white liberals especially need to understand. The MAGA fascists laughing about this and spreading regime lies will never view you as human beings. Never. There is no civility to be found in their camp. No conversation that you can have with them will convince them of your innate value. And the sooner you realize this, the better off you will be.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026