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We all know words can't really express sarcasm or other underlying feelings or meanings very clearly. Without a /s your only able to assume if the they did or didn't actually mean that.
So what's the joke? Are they're pretending to be racist without the topic (rammstein) ever mentioning race to begin with?
I don't buy that. 'Please excuse me. I'm just going to be sarcastically racist without anyone previously mentioning race!' -- It's straight out of the alt-right playbook; when called out, claim it's a sarcastic, ironic joke!
No clue, could be either. It's text on a screen and the only emotion present, is the one you decide to apply to it.
Ask them if it was a joke or not to be sure, and if you have to ask, it's because it might not be.
Sounds like you're going to lengths to defend this behaviour or to differentiate it.
No apologia is allowed
Actually no, the hexbear comment is clearly bad in my opinion, regardless of if it was sarcasm.
Ironically, I'm of German descent, but whichever heritage someone is in my opinion would be the same.
Good, I'm glad you can agree it's bad. You have to be very vigilant against the alt-right playbook—no defending sarcasm or if it's a joke.
when you are with your peer group and use sarcasm, you probably also don’t label it as such.
That's a fair point, id just consider that as an inside joke I guess.
Right, but there's enough social context going on to generally assume that stans for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles probably don't actually consider Germans a form of untermensch.
Most of them aren't actual Marxists, that's a facade for them to spread disinformation and divisive content.