When people speak, they can use words either for the actual meaning of the statements or for the effects the word cause. That's part of why you always seem obvious projection in cases like this; they said things about me that made other people dislike me and take their side, so I'll say those things too. It's also the same reason why white supremacists love to claim victimhood, because they see the people who were actually victims of white supremacists talking about their victimhood and gaining sympathy for it. If you don't care about reality you can say whatever the hell you want.
And sometimes you see people operating on that sort of level for an entire argument. I sometimes see it even on Era, even for relatively innocent conversations. Someone drops a dumb off the cuff remark, maybe trying to look smart in a situation they know nothing about, then when that's actually engaged they making great arguments against positions that no one actually took or throw frivilous accusations at others, which just entangles them deeper in this argument that they can't bring themselves to just disengage with.
So I tend to think that's what's going on here. They see that Rekieta's history is being dredged out and makes him look bad, so they try to mimic the behaviour without considering that it doesn't have the same effect when the information in someone's background isn't demonstrating them to be an unabashed racist. The upper part of their brain isn't even online; they aren't actually engaging with the information they spout. It's an endless loop where they're desperate not to look stupid, but they are stupid, so they keep providing proof of it instead.