Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again

On 2025-03-08 3:54 PM, BTR1701 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, 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.

A very similar thing happened up here a few years back. A guy with the vanity plate "ASIMIL8" got it taken away because some anonymous person thought he was urging our indigenous (Indian) citizens to leave their reservations and live with the rest of us (I believe about half of all Indians already live off-reserve), which is presumably a racist statement even though it actually calls for them to live among us rather than in their own form of apartheid. But the owner of the plate was actually making a reference to Star Trek and the Borg. Of course explaining his meaning was pointless because the woke bureaucrats argued that it could be taken to be "racist" and was therefore unacceptable even if that's not what he meant.

 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.
 

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Rhino