What a braindead take.

By calling out ICE as masked thugs you’re calling them exactly what they are thereby stripping them of any legitimacy they may have in people’s eyes by being part of the government. As for caling them gang members, that’s exactly what they are. They’re members of the biggest gang - the government.

Only a racist person who believes in race would automatically think of non white people when they hear “masked thugs”. Anyone who isn’t racist and doesn’t believe in race just pictures thugs with masks.

The counter to racism is to realise that race doesn’t exist, not joining in believing in this arbitrary social construct. Once you adopt this view you stop seeing race everywhere. If you’re anti-racist but you believe race exists and you see it everywhere in everything then you’re part of the problem.