[groundpepper]

I don't buy that some people are so naive that they can look at a website like this, the white supremacists who obviously occupy it, and think it's a good spirited joke by normal non-racist people. White supremacy is on the rise, and it's scary seeing the denial tactics make their way to Hacker News.

[xupybd]

I think it's far from a good spirited joke. It's clearly gone too far and is causing real harm to real people.

That's often the fall out of these 4chan esk dark humour groups.

Generally these groups also pull in the genuinely hate filled as well.

Also to say it's only creates for humour doesn't justify it's existence. It's does make it a very different beast than a genuine white supremacist group.

It's different because these people are rage farmers. They want articles like this. They want their actions to cause outrage. They want them to be noticed. To them that's the goal. The goal is not to be exposed as a group of immature idiots causing real harm. These are like school children that carve swastikas on their desk just because they know they shouldn't.

[happytoexplain]

>These are like school children that carve swastikas on their desk just because they know they shouldn't.

This analogy works well for young people posting on 4chan, but if that same person creates a web platform to organize people to put swastikas on buildings, that person is almost certainly not doing this just because they know they shouldn't.

[klyrs]

> This analogy works well for young people posting on 4chan

Nevermind Dylan Roof, the Christchurch massacre, etc. To pass this off as harmless fun is really missing the point. Some of these kids take it very seriously and act on it with tragic consequences.