Oh please, a website that aims to shame race-mixing, even as a joke, deserves comparison to white supremacist and neo-nazi groups.

Those are the groups that find "comedic value" in a site like this. It it appears to have content that directs harassment and hatred at real people, so I would think really hard if "just a joke" is really the excuse you want to make for hate speech like this.

Yep, because harassing interracial couples is so hilarious \s.

You're lying. This is obviously a white supremacist site. See:

One section is titled “toll paid,” and it lists women who have been in interracial relationships, and had something horrible happen to them, like death or injury.

There is a difference between acknowledging and discussing facts that may be uncomfortable, and using facts selectively as a way to justify hatred and violence. (This isn't a comment either way about the veracity of your research).

Also, the parent post made no mention either way regarding anything you've suggested. "Wondering" about things in this way is a common tactic of bad-faith argument.

is this actually a problem? there are so many people in the world that you can always find cherry picked examples to prove your point. white men commit domestic violence, does that mean no-one should date white men?

In what way is calling a website dedicated to harassing interacial couples white supremacist disingenuous?

Everything is "racebait" nowadays. Racism died in the 20th century and anytime a racist act happens now its "irony" or the victims fault.

Can't tell if you're serious or sarcastic. Delightful.

What is the difference between a white supremacist and someone who acts exactly like one but ironically?

The latter acts indignant when you call them a racist, while the former owns it.

Ah that sounds about right. As someone in an interracial marriage I found the picture the article painted of the site abhorrent. I was still thinking freedom of speech was important and didn't want hosting providers to step in unless clear laws were broken.

If you and your partner's photos, phone numbers, home addresses, and other personal details appeared on this website, would you be making this same argument?

Yes I probably would. I'd be looking for legal means to shut them down. But opposed to having the site shutdown by hosting providers reacting to media pressure.

I've been on the other side of this. Had articles written that caused friends to be banned from a public university. There was no due process. The articles were not correct.

Legal process must be followed for society to remain just.

Please stop normalizing racism.

Can you fill me in on the "joke" here:

"The cucks refer to the white men who date women on the coal fax registry. These “men” deserve to be shamed and humiliated. Once you go black, we don’t want you back."

Some people find it funny to emulate the most offensive things they can think of. Often fuelled by the outrage it generates.

It doesn't mean it's funny for everyone but it is a possible motivation for the site.

The excuse that 4channers are all just innocent, mischief-making kids and it's the rest of society that's the real problem is really starting to wear thin.

If someone says they're only fucking goats ironically, they're still a goatfucker. If a community is being racist ironically to the point that actual racists take its shit seriously, mass shooters shout it out in their manifestos, and that community harasses and doxxes people for racist reasons, then that's just a racist community. If someone gets off on the outrage that racism generates, then they're just a racist and an asshole.

Irony is not magical fairy dust that can be sprinkled over one's actions to make their consequences disappear. And really, at this point I don't think we can give 4chan and the like the benefit of the doubt that it's all just memes. Eventually, if you wear the mask long enough, you become the mask. 4chan became the mask a long time ago.

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.

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.

>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.

> 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.

That doesn't make it not explicitly racist and white supremacist. If you set fire to a synagogue and then explained it was just to trigger the libs, do you think that would make it less of an anti-Semitic act?

No it doesn't make it any less racist.

It's simply that if it is that sort of joke articles like this are giving them more motivation to keep doing it.