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Gilbert

No one’s really gonna be free until nerd persecution ends.

— Revenge of the Nerds ‧ 1984

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Our interpretation.

The speaker declares that nobody can truly be free until the mistreatment of nerds stops. Treating a schoolyard grievance as a grand civil-rights cause, the line sounds both earnest and comically sweeping, tying everyone's liberty to the fate of the outcasts.

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