Speaking of chan culture, you must surely know that pretending to be racist is not really a great defense: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-only-pretending-to-be-r...

What's the difference between being racist with the intent of offending ("triggering") people vs just being racist?

Isn't most racism done with the intent of making the target uncomfortable or offended (whether that be in small ways or all the way up to straight up murdering people)? Like isn't that the entire point of racism? The KKK wasn't burning crosses to be friendly.

I'm sure most KKK chapters were actually satirical, totally-not-racist, KKK chapters. It was that oddball 1 in a hundred chapter that crossed the line that gave the rest a bad name

/s in case it's needed

Making people uncomfortable. That's a really mild take on the whole KKK thing. Feeling very charitable today, are we?