You mean, besides not having the guts to post using their actual name?
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... is a sarcasm smiley which has been in use for decades, and whose meaning isn't in doubt. I really don't know how anyone can take this as anything other than whimsy. Imagine the tweet without the emojis, and that's a different story: they make a material difference.
There's a legitimate concern that even as a joke, the implied "truth" in the implication that the point is so obvious it deserves ridicule, can be made. But I think it would be overconfident to treat this nuance as the main intent.
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I don't give people the benefit of the doubt with "jokes" like this. I see a lot of casual bigotry expressed as "jokes" that cloud their underlying intent with emojis and "it's just a joke" responses. I think in this case what matters isn't intent but how it's understood.
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The conversation I'd like to be having w.r.t. these kinds of statements is how they affect people, not whether or not the people they affect are just "trying to be offended" (because, usually, nobody is).
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