MAGA has exploited Iryna Zarutska’s murder, framing her as a “white woman” to erase centuries of Russian, anti Ukrainian violence and stoke unfounded fear of hyper sexual and violent Black men. Musk and other MAGA CEOs want murals—not to honor her, but to commodify her on the blockchain of white fear.

It’s not remembrance. It’s desecration. True remembrance means solidarity, not racist propaganda.

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