>>147925If this is your attitude, then you might never get it.
It's not "backtracking," /b/ was rancid trolls back in the day, that was
the point. A lot of them would half-assedly RP as arch-communists just as soon as they'd RP as Nazis because
it offended people on the internet and being a bunch of horny dorks pretending to be the SS or NKVD seemed goofy.
I was editing the racist Jew caricature into stuff in 2009 once or twice, and the reason I thought it was funny was because the idea that Jews control everything and are some sinister force behind everything is so retarded and overtly offensive that it seems
comical. Back then the same people who would do this kind of thing would also harass Hal Turner and Ghost. When they posted racist shit themselves, they tended to focus on the most cartoonish, archaic bullshit around - not to give themselves away, but because it was
funnier. They did it for the lulz.
The problem was that it left an opening for unironic racists to subvert it, but that didn't actually start succeeding until the 2010s with SWARMfront, which also benefitted a bit from an initial rightward shift among some which mostly just pertained to feminism. The most vocal chantard anti-feminist I knew in the early 2010s was a literal gay-leaning camboy, btw, so that gives you an idea of what the nature of the site actually was at that point. Even a lot of
those people were turned off of 4chan once it was totally co-opted by boomer Nazis, and that's part of why you see
way less activity on a lot of the non-/pol/ boards since the 2010s. The invasion of infographic-posting stormfags who the staff refused to do much about resulted in an exodus by a lot of the other users of the site.