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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 21:22:34 -0000 (UTC)
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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'.

>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.

>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.

Hey, if you are going to be receive the punch line in real life, how am
I supposed to provide it in followup?

How have you been enjoying the Ferengi re-education classes?