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As a native English speaker, I find it hard to keep up and understand everything that’s now been deemed inappropriate. I can’t imagine how a non native would understand.

Seems like there is an effort to intentionally keep making it more complex to show who really keeps up with twitter the most.

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> I can’t imagine how a non native would understand.

I don't understand it. Respectfully, I also find it mildly amusing.

I don’t have a twitter account to get updates on this, so I just try to avoid nouning adjectives related to any hot button issues. I dunno, I’m not the Word Police, just interested in avoiding unnecessary conflict.

I’d hope that most people would give the benefit of the doubt people who aren’t native English speakers, though.

Also give the benefit of the doubt to native speakers who are engaged in good-faith communication.

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