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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2">Add to the list of misappropriated symbols: </font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2"> 88 is an century old Morse code abbreviation for "hugs and kisses". Now the same people that claim Tyr also have a different meaning for 88.</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="2"> Wikipedia says the swastika has been used on the Indian subcontinent for 2500 years. </font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div>
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On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 03:05:58 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Back on Feb. 14, 2001, I wrote, about NextDoor:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Account temporarily disabled<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Your account has been temporarily disabled for a violation of this<br clear="none">> Community Guideline:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Be respectful to your neighbours<br clear="none">> We want all neighbours to feel welcome, safe, and respected on Nextdoor.<br clear="none">> When conversations turn disagreeable, everyone on Nextdoor suffers. Our<br clear="none">> Guidelines prohibit posts and replies that discriminate against, attack,<br clear="none">> insult, shame, bully, or belittle others.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Learn moreabout this guideline and our moderation process.<br clear="none">> Sign in again in 4 days (Feb 18)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Today, just happened a second time, again no warnings, no explanation,<br clear="none">and this iteration it'll be a 14-day ban.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But I got the most curious ND private message about 1:30pm, today, <br clear="none">from a woman whose name/location I will omit (to comply with ND rules):<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> You are Going way too overboard with your long diatribes. <br clear="none"> What makes you think your Nextdoor neighbors want your <br clear="none"> opinions all the.time? It's just too +much and way tooConceded <br clear="none"> to think so. You need to shorten your opinions and actually <br clear="none"> stop them if you ask me. It's as if you think you are<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I stopped to think for a long while, and also looked the woman<br clear="none">up, finding that she's a "ND Lead" for a very rich community<br clear="none">not far from our house (but not Menlo Park or West Menlo), and<br clear="none">works as a "private chef", i.e., does fancy meals for the super-rich.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So, after some thought, I sent back:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> [Name], I'm very sorry to have rubbed you the wrong way, and will<br clear="none"> certainly try to avoid doing so. I always try to be on good terms <br clear="none"> with people in the community, where possible. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> I'd be delighted to chat over coffee if you ever want to come visit.<br clear="none"> (I'm not a private chef, but people say my coffee is excellent.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> One thing I'm curious about: You didn't identify yourself as the ND<br clear="none"> Lead for [very wealthy community]. Are you speaking, in this matter, in <br clear="none"> a ND Lead capacity, or just as [name]? Either way, I appreciate the <br clear="none"> feedback.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(I tried to make it nice, and didn't even make any obvious <br clear="none">crack about her misspelling "conceited", nor about the irony of her<br clear="none">name-calling, highly opinionated, pushy e-mail telling me I should<br clear="none">cease articulating "opinions" -- and leaving unclear in what capacity<br clear="none">she was speaking.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">My ND login got disabled literally a couple of minutes later. If<br clear="none">prior experience is any guide, when allowed access again, I'll be<br clear="none">required to acknowledge that I've failed to be "respectful to my<br clear="none">neighbours", without being advised what that was.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I had not "discriminated against, attacked, insulted, shamed,<br clear="none">bullied, or belittled" any individual, though I sometimes make <br clear="none">pointed comments carefully aimed away from personal criticism.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Through possible coincidence, exactly as during the February banning<br clear="none">incident, I had also _just_ made a public comment impliedly critical of<br clear="none">white nationalists: <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'd observed a thread for a few days where someone posted a photograph<br clear="none">of a swastika on a car dashboard in the Town and Country Village<br clear="none">shopping centre parking lot, Palo Alto, leading to a number of South<br clear="none">Asian ethnics explaining that it's a traditional good-luck symbol in<br clear="none">their culture that got smeared by Nazi misappropriation. I posted to<br clear="none">say I sympathise, and that they were not alone in this problem,<br clear="none">describing how we Scandinavians are obliged to avoid using our own<br clear="none">Viking symbols such as the Tyr rune, symbol of the warrior god Tyr,<br clear="none">because both the Third Reich and its latter-day admirers keep stealing<br clear="none">our symbols, I said this was extra-irksome for my own family, given<br clear="none">that our ancestral town of Kristiansund, Norway had been firebombed and<br clear="none">90% destroyed during the 1940s occupation, but what can you do?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Two bannings in a row immediately following my making very mild critical<br clear="none">comments about white nationalists is not a great look for NextDoor, Inc.<br clear="none">(coincidence though the latest banning may be).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In February, I wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Anyway, it's good to know that NextDoor's moderators are protecting<br clear="none">> racists and xenophobics against the horror of being told their claims<br clear="none">> are mistaken and consequently feeling bad. Well done!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hmm, still looks bad, guys!<div class="ydpde96bd0cyqt5206654873" id="ydpde96bd0cyqtfd63878"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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