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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:08:17 -0400
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On 3/9/2025 6:21 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> On the Facebook, you can routinely see the word change after you push the
> send button.

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