Great!  I hate Nightbot!

And meanings change when used enough, so eventually, that other word will just be “accepted”. As it already has become with a huge lot of the gaming community.

So does that mean I can’t talk about death with people because people around me may be dealing with death and find that hurtful?  Seriously.  Grow a thick skin, like most of the minorities that have had to deal with this shit for years and feel that members of their community with thin skin do their cause a…

using emojis like that undercuts any serious premise you can offer.

No, if your intent was not to offend a group of people, and you did it sidelongly, then yes, you’re less culpable than someone who did it with intent. That’s why the law has varying degrees of intent.

In that case, then, the tweet is not transphobic.  It’s a series of words.  Certain words mean things in contexts that they don’t mean in others.  How the hell is this so hard?  

I stopped reading when the author started calling other people imbeciles and cretins to make his point about not calling people retards.

It took even less time for her to convert to fanatical Islam