This is my first time back on Sup Forums in 4 or 5 years. I left when Anonymous and this board became newsworthy and things went to shit.
I came back to ask a question:
Did I imagine it, or was the racism expressed here only done so ironically? Like if someone didn't agree with something and called someone a 'dumb nigger' or whatever, we were all taking part in a never-ending joke to somehow highlight the irrationality of racists? Or was I fraternising with actual racists the entire time?
Probably a bad example, but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say.
Angel Cooper
You're a dumb nigger
Xavier Brooks
Nigger
Juan Reyes
No we are all actual racists until we meet minorities in real life. Too beta to say shit. Best to just do it anonymously online
Lucas Green
OP is a faggot and a dumb nigger
Caleb Green
sauce?
Jace Martin
Stfu nigger.
Like that?
Chase Myers
you left when b was in the puddi puddi phase, the fuck are you talking about "newsworthy" lol
Thomas Collins
Generally, no. The whole alt-right coming out of Sup Forums is largely a reactionary movement designed to troll the progressive left. Some are actual neo-nazis, but they're not trying to control things to the degree that the far left is, so we just roll with it like we always have.
Carson Turner
A little bit of both. What, you're fine with rekt threads, CP, and distributing women's nudes without permission but you can't handle a little racism?
Michael Morales
Some are racist, others aren't. But with anonymity you can say the things you wouldn't do otherwise so this place can be a place of release and relaxation for people where they won't have to be careful about what they say.
That has become increasingly attractive to people with the crazy PC culture going on at universities and businesses.
Even if you don't mean it this is a good place to be racist or sexist just to get it out of your system, so to speak.
Eli Hernandez
I've been here since '06 and all the people I'd known from the roots of this place aren't racists despite using racial slurs. It was a running joke to be edgy so we would scare away the normies. ("I learned it on Sup Forums but don't go there, it's goss.") Eventually people got passed our first defense (being egdy) and complained about the site. News sites and channels started paying attention and true faggotry ensued.
Nolan Reyes
This.
Logan Wilson
Huh? Both sides are pretty bad. We DO have a hard right president who is basically destroying anything he can get his hands on with a hard right controlled House and Senate to back him up, 'member?
Jace Ortiz
Stfu nigger and show us the tits
Austin Turner
this. everyone's a faggot and a nigger because the only thing worse than Sup Forums as it actually is, is how bad it could be if it ever tried to be "tolerant" or someshit
Jose Wood
its always been about trolling and doing idiotic shit, semi-anonymously. still is, but its all been done, shitty reposts of faggoty stuff mostly now, and thats why it has gone downhill
This board has been flooded with newfags and needless to say they've taken it to mean something else. Most of them are immature underagefags.
Bentley Garcia
OP here. I was active between 07 and 12/13 and that how I remember the early days too. It's a shame it couldn't have lasted forever...
Owen Davis
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Jason Cruz
You've been away for too long. You became a faggot. Also a dumb nigger, apparently.
Jack Davis
feggit
Blake Jackson
This
4chain used to be 4 teh lulz
Now its edgey tween central, buncha faggots tryin to be a part of something that never existed
Asher Lopez
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Kayden Johnson
The racism started ironically but became real as anons looked up more data, hence the state of Sup Forums.
Rabbit-chan a best.
Bentley Gomez
nudes? i always wanted a ratatoullie porn
Camden Nguyen
Kek.
Nathaniel Young
newfag
Xavier Cooper
A lot of the racism is is real. You can see that from, Sup Forums's politics.
Luis Collins
...
Samuel Williams
fag
Nathan Cooper
I wonder...how will we ever consume cheese?
Lucas Williams
candy-ass roody-poo
Jacob Rivera
Yea, the niggers found this place since then.
Adam Walker
Dancing on my tittles cause I never worked
Eli Ward
It's like Detroit. Even moot bailed out
Daniel Howard
Ima rip your fuckin head open
Julian Campbell
You fucking nerd can't even rip a orange open.
Landon Rivera
The average age is about 14. Mental maturity age a little younger.
Lincoln Ortiz
I agree with others, it was mixed before, it's mixed now. My guess is that there's more genuine racism than ironic fake racism. But I think there's a slight majority of non-racist lurkers who don't respond to racist comments or threads compared to genuine racists. I could be wrong, there's certainly no way of knowing, just giving my impression.
Liam Brown
gore chicken!
Christian Taylor
been here since '08
i've been asking myself this so much since Trump.
Until then i just assumed everyone here was like me, hating niggers but not black people.
In other words, hating 'gangsta' culture but not thinking black people are inherently inferior or any of that retarded jim crow bullshit.
A white person can be a nigger, in fact these days there's probably more white niggers than black.
I miss the Sup Forums that thought retarded conservatives were just as funny as retarded liberals.
David Miller
god rabbit chan has such massive teeth It makes my dick so wet
Christian Lopez
Kike bigotry for LGTB jackasses
Noah Miller
...
Samuel Williams
Nigger lover detected.
Ryan Stewart
half and half. There is a disproportionate amount of genuinely racist alt right people on this site. Howerver, most people aren't racist and call black people niggers because it is the terminology everyone else uses. also for comedy. i dont even view it as racist since most use terms like mudslime or goyim to describe the other races
Lucas Gray
Anonymity means you can't tell. It started ironically, but when you see it repeated over and over memetically, you can't help but normalize and internalize it.
Especially for the younger guys on the board who maybe isolated and looking for symbols to claim group status, you just can't help it and frankly it's really fucking dangerous.
Once the board got publicity, the actual legitimate racists came in and you can't tell the difference any more.
Ironic racism must die.
Noah Cruz
While the left has almost the entirety of corporate media trying to sway voters, along with an authoritarian co-opt of once-noble causes like social justice and feminism coming right out of the grassroots. The US government might not agree with a lot of its people in principle right now, but at least they're playing by the rules more so than the far left is.
At the core of it, it's just the fact that the right is not attempting to silence their political opponents. This shithole is full of people who value free speech and the exchange of ideas more than we value our own personal comfort, and that's a big point of contention that puts us at odds with them.
Matthew Morris
well said and check'd
Ethan Price
sjws are a tiny minority of the left
Ryder Jenkins
...
Leo Watson
kek
Ethan Foster
I see it like this. No need to be a nigger or jew to be a nigger or jew.
Austin Hughes
This isn't even remotely true. "Mainstream" television news was captured by corporate acquisition in the 80s and neutered politically and exploited for profit.
The explicitly political stuff is on the right.
Thomas Fisher
No, it definitely was by majority ironic humor. and flaunting anonymity and saying whatever the fuck you want. The most literally racist threads were just image dumps of literal niggers doing funny shit. None of the retarded "infographics" made by literal batshit-insane white supremacists you see now.
Picture fucking related. The wave of newfags that stupid shit like gamergate, leaks of celebrity nudes, etc. brought in saw ironic racist humor and took it seriously.
Ten years ago Sup Forums raided hal turner's radio show and ddos'd his server to rack up a fuckton in hosting fees. Now it's full of a bunch of braindead trumptard meme-machines.
Jayden Morales
more
Michael Diaz
OP is a retard nigger
Brandon Moore
No one is a nigger if everyone is a nigger
Tyler Clark
first one then the other this places sort of dark antisocial sense of humor kind of let the actually racist element move in unnoticed. The right always say "humor normalizes degenerate behavior" I guess this would be a great example for that if they ever turned their judgement inward.
Levi Brooks
Its not a small portion at all unless you are counting Dixicrats who are Republicans in all but voting (they and their kids have voted Dem since the 1930s) pattern.
Sit down with your run of the mill Democrat voter and run down the list of SJW ideas and the Democrat will agree on 9 out of 10 items. Rational every day white people switched to the Republican party or stopped voting all together 20+ years ago
Aaron Hall
soon things will be back to the way they were
soon
Isaac Hughes
You dont live in reality. Liberal media outnumbers conservative media by a wide margin
Evan Price
>remembering old raids
I never asked for this
Colton Reed
the alternative to ironic racism is to get sensitive about race.
do ya really thing Sup Forums is going to do that?
Aaron Baker
>there's not enough fiction that pats me on the back for being a retard jesus you guys are as bad as sjws.
Adrian Martinez
They're vocal, and the moderate left isn't challenging them. CNN, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington post, they're all indulging the sjw narratives, and people are buying in. They might not be actual sjws, but if it's the only political viewpoint they hear, it will sway their votes, convince them that that narrative is the most just one, and goad them into sharing it further.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjFmOKqyWpE Watch this. All of it. The same guy does similar videos, too.
Luke Sanders
Only if you define liberal media as anything other than explicitly conservative media.
Which is a propaganda strategy.
You're being taken for a fool, homey.
Cameron Bailey
The alternative is not to perpetuate the racism and calling it out when you see it. It's a difference between saying "OMG Triggered!" and saying "Dude, not cool."
This sounds about right. I was never really racist to begin with, but its fun to call people niggers online.
Samuel Mitchell
>calling it out when you see it. that's a great way to make race relations worse. Source: the last 5 years. BLM has made tons of people hate niggers a fuck ton more than they used to. If you really want to stop racism then shut the fuck up about it and let people have their fun. It's fine to shit on whitey on TV but if I make a spic joke at the bar then I'm the problem? Fuck off with that.
Cameron Martinez
Sup Forums was always shit nothing left to be said
Lincoln Green
2007 here this is not what i expected it would be turned into
Elijah Long
There were and are both.
Ian Ross
This man gets it
Charles Morris
You're not understanding the foundation of culture, basically. You hate "niggers" and not "black people" but you don't realize that nigger behavior is the natural state for that race. This is fine when they're in their home countries but it doesn't mesh with western society. Look up "the ant and the grasshopper."
And yes, some whites fall into the nigger catagory but those are outliers, just like how Asians tend to be the best at math but some of them can be literally retarded.
Christian Kelly
you are no longer one of us. LEAVE THE MASTER RACE NOW.
Chase Miller
Are you going to drop the nudes or not?
Owen Bailey
That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. And I read Sup Forums. You think racism will just go away if we don't talk about it? That was the whole culture of the jim crow south.
Only by calling it out and making racists uncomfortable will it go away. How we do that without provoking a white backlash is the trick though.
Hudson Adams
Way I see it, it's either acceptable to joke about all races (if it's done in good humour), or it's not acceptable at all. I prefer the former.
Zachary Russell
I always hope it's ironic, and in that instance it usuall;y is. The problem is gthat real racists say the same things.
Isaac Rodriguez
>You hate "niggers" and not "black people" but you don't realize that nigger behavior is the natural state for that race.
Go back to stormfront.
Justin Powell
>but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say no one ever will
Carter Jones
OldFag here, agree. It used to be a community for lutz. But once the news media found out about it, the real racists and wackadoodles showed up. But Sup Forums still beats FB et.al. as a place to waste time on the webbers.
Evan Collins
>Only by calling it out and making racists uncomfortable will it go away. How we do that without provoking a white backlash is the trick though. >if only we could brainwash the whole population, that'd fix the problem
I've been here for 11 years. You go back to gaia.
Zachary White
Great. Then it's not acceptable. You don't need to silence anyone. Just say that that's not cool, and, if you choose, don't associate with that person because you don't have to. You don't need to control them, just yourself.
Benjamin Ross
The problem is that people call out fucking everything as racist now, and that has severely stunted things. It's lost all meaning. People are applying the same moniker for those who think other races are inherently inferior to people who like the new Ghost in the Shell film. As a consequence, people push against it.
Wyatt Thompson
you leave gaia out of this
Jaxson Fisher
>How we do that without provoking a white backlash is the trick though you can't a lot people love to be pariahs or making themselves victims by saying the most offensive things they can. If being a racist actually required doing something then there'd be almost none.
Wyatt Reed
it wouldn't let me say "reddit" so I improvised.
Ryder Ramirez
Turns out there's lots of shit that's racist. Weird, right? For a culture that's held slaves then slavery-lite sharecropping and Jim Crow.
Where could that part of the culture possible have come from?
We don't have to make every thing perfect. We can just stop with calling out shit like ITT
>You hate "niggers" and not "black people" but you don't realize that nigger behavior is the natural state for that race.
Cooper Clark
Yes, everyone on Sup Forums is a racist homophobe.
Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just for shits n' giggles.
Adam Thomas
>the new Ghost in the Shell film come on, lets not bring up that abortion any sort of race issues there are completely eclipsed by how bad it is.
Xavier Edwards
Not the original guy you were talking to but for me it's the hypocrisy that pisses me off. If someone is not comfortable with jokes about their race or culture that's fine, I respect that. If they then turn around and start cracking jokes about whitey, they can fuck off.
Similarly if they are comfortable with said jokes, they can make them too.
Adrian Brown
racial differences are a human thing. was and always will be. it comes in waves. nowadays the media is blowing fuck out of proportion.
Aiden Martin
>I've been here for 11 years. You go back to gaia.