Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC), 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:
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    And how much of that alleged decrease is because
    of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
    government officials?
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    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'.

I'm confused as to how they know what you wrote. I guess they asked
for all your social media accounts (and you gave them that
information) but then they would have to have some sort of combo of
computer search on-going for any possible violations and then have a
human verify that it crosses some barrier that NextDoor has
established. I'm amazed that they considered that worth their time. If
I were a stockholder I would question why the company cares about what
customers are doing on social media.

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.
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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.
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My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.

I guess I shouldn't say anything against the clones in Star Wars.

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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.

I'm sorry, but you are wrong to call these people "progressives". As
that is clearly a regressive behavior that is clearly uncalled for.