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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:08:42 -0500
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

>This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
>thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
>I said this:
>
>     And how much of that alleged decrease is because
>     of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
>     government officials?
>
>     For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
>     provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
>     for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
>     counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
>     homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
>     24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
>     a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
>     though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
>
>     The official stats on which those news reports are
>     based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
>     I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
>
>I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
>against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
>apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.

I'm confused as to how they know what you wrote. I guess they asked
for all your social media accounts (and you gave them that
information) but then they would have to have some sort of combo of
computer search on-going for any possible violations and then have a
human verify that it crosses some barrier that NextDoor has
established. I'm amazed that they considered that worth their time. If
I were a stockholder I would question why the company cares about what
customers are doing on social media.

>But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and
>insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
>bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
>some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
>reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
>There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
>
>It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
>ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
>a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural
>insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
>because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
>
>My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.

I guess I shouldn't say anything against the clones in Star Wars.
>
>As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
>a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo
>card.

I'm sorry, but you are wrong to call these people "progressives". As
that is clearly a regressive behavior that is clearly uncalled for.