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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 13:09:17 -0400
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On 3/8/2025 9:41 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> 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"?
> 
> Sigh.  Yes.

Speech-recognition:  Trust, but verify.