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I agree. Hell, "an actual trans person" can be offended by baby carrots too. You can always find someone who is enraged about something, especially if you're active in "Social Justice" circles.

Difference being that baby carrots have nothing to do with transgenderism, the attack helicopter pasta explicitly does, and explicitly pokes fun at it.

Also, false dichotomy on the subject of offending people. There's a lot more finesse to that subject rather than "you care about offending absolutely nobody" and "you don't care about offending absolutely anybody".

Who would that "entire demographic" be? If you pay any attention to those who go out of their way to be offended by everything, you'll see that they often claim that this meme is directed against the Tumblr-gendered. Not against transsexuals.

Many people claim that as an excuse when they get called out, yet the copypasta seems to show up at moments where just the word "gender" or "identify" gets mentioned, regardless if the preceding conversation threads into high levels of absurdness. One particular example I recall was this highly upvoted post on r/funny, where a man as a joke claimed that "with how much talk there has been on gender and race as of late, I've found that I'm transfinancial [yadda yadda] give me donations". Attack helicopters abound in the comments despite there being no mention of tumblr or otherkin, just "talk on gender and race".

You can't hurt anyone with it. They're words. Those who cannot control their own feelings are always looking to control the words (and thoughts) of other people.

You, 50 minutes ago:

maybe you should stop screaming about everything being "offensive" and triggering?

That sounds dangerously like you're trying to control my speech right there, dude, are your feelings okay? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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