Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by krapp on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:03AM
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I know it's comforting to believe that there were never any real racists on 4chan until relatively recently, and that it was all naive shitposters and kids making edgy memes, but it's far more likely that actual racists have always hidden behind the pretense of 4chan's ironic culture and anonymity, and have always been active there.
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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by jandrese on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:15PM
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In the olden days you could read between the lines to see people mocking the very culture their post was supposedly glorifying. Later this nuance disappeared as the board was overrun with actual Neo-Nazis.