Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:54:51 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="99217914ffc9e8beace1b617b02e0234"; logging-data="346898"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MqaHT2b+Q6d4a5nWWQkwJ" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:OBE+KZFHWc3PliTcLp4NC5wF2BA= 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.