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.
It doesn't mean it's funny for everyone but it is a possible motivation for the site.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's simply that if it is that sort of joke articles like this are giving them more motivation to keep doing it.