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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 22:33:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 8, 2025 at 2:08:42 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> This time it's 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.

Because they run the platform. NextDoor is a social media platform and I
posted my comment there.

>> 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.

That's why I always put the word 'progressive' in quotes because most
everything they do and advocate for is the opposite of progress.