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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:19:16 -0500
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On 2025-03-08 7:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> 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,
> 
> Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If
> they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room
> forever can’t we just commit them?
> 
> 
> 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.
>>
> 
> OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
> wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
> 
views? Was that supposed to be "fuse"?
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 


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Rhino