Moral of the story: I gues... don't let your 7-year-olds obsessively watch Blackadder. 
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Puns are inherently divisive
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To be fair, I mean yes: they are.
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Especially rampantly sexist ones

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I'm a rampantly sexist person. Don't you know?pic.twitter.com/qjxWjpE8Ao
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But seriously I do think that puns can be pretty exclusionary if left unexplained to non-native speakers.
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Thank you for sticking with. I enjoy your tweets immensely and learn from them.
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Glad somebody is.

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You’ve made Twitter interesting for me, Olivia. Keep the


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“[T]here is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth.”
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I see there are quotation marks. May I ask who said that originally? Sorry if I missed something.

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MLKJr in his letter from the Birmingham jail, when he’s discussing how people are uncomfortable with their way of protesting.
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(The point being that people have always complained about ways minorities highlight these sorts of issues, but the “tension” is good)
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I absolutely agree. In haste of being so moved by the statement alone, I forgot to look it up myself. Thank you for such an important reminder.

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I'm here for this kind of pun
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