[scrumper]

There's a curiously large connection between 4Chan's audience and the far right if satirical memes are getting co-opted that easily. What an odd demographic they must have; both satire enthusiasts and their targets coexisting in one happy space...

[krapp]

When you create a community that's welcoming to racists, where people share racist ideology and memes and have racist conversations, with the plausible deniability provided by anonymity and the implied satire and irony behind everything, then actual racists will show up and speak openly, and appropriate the memes as actual symbols.

Why wouldn't they? It's free real estate, as it were.