Posted on 05/11/2016 6:10:20 AM PDT by artichokegrower
After finding itself an unlikely hub for racial fearmongering, the social site Nextdoor.com says it is transforming into a model of respectful, neighborly conduct.
No longer will suspicious neighbors be able to post their fears about a stranger based on that person’s color or ethnicity, Nextdoor’s chief executive Nirav Tolia told Oakland city officials and neighborhood activists who have demanded that the company change the site to prevent racial profiling.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Could try:
"Two over 6 ft males, much gold on teeth, sitting in Cadillac with 24 inch rims, listening to rap music, obviously unemployed as it is the middle of the day, using the word "ho" a lot"
that ok?
It’s going to be a lot less useful as a resource.
I guess that they watched the “All in the Family” episode involving the Jeffersons moving into the neighbourhood and Archie was, of course, opposed since they were black, lol.
Nextdoor is negating it’s usefulness.. No description of a perp that helps identify him will be permitted. Every description is “unfair” discrimination because it establishes differences between the suspect and other people. That IS discrimination and as such is patently “unfair.”
I hear non-swimmer is the current euphemism.
I choose to do without it.
oh, boo-effin-hoo. This PC crap has gotten totally out of hand. Of course, we are talking about the home of San Fran Nan. USED to be a place I’d fly cross-country to visit; now, I wouldn’t cross the street to get there.
Telling the truth is unfair.
[it’s just too rich an opportunity for the neighborhood gossips and busybodies to ply their craft]
Modernized party line where everybody would listen to each others conversations.
> I hear non-swimmer is the current euphemism.
Growing up in Chicago, playing the south side teams in water polo were knock down drag out events. They could swim but played a rough game of holding and hitting. We played likewise. That was lots of fun ;-)
So I’ve seen posts on my local nextdoor page talking about suspicious middle-aged man with blond/grey hair and another about a suspicious black man knocking on doors. Are both prohibited or just the second one?
They can just report, “a male whose pants are too big for him wearing a shirt with a hood” was seen walking up and down our street.
“Telling the truth is unfair.”
Especially when you’re trying desperately to maintain ‘appearances’ for appearances’ sake.
“I hear non-swimmer is the current euphemism.”
I love ‘non-swimmer’
I live in Oakland. When suspicious people are reported in the neighborhood it is already assumed that the are “non-swimmers.”
When I see a black man walking down the street in my neighborhood I wave and say hello. If I see two black youths driving through the neighborhood in a car with dealer plates I get suspicious.
Just describe them as Amish, everybody knows what that means.
(Everybody at F.R. anyway.)
We have neighbors with video cameras...kinda makes it obvious
It makes me snicker that someone would want themselves to be purposely misidentified. Nobody knows if you're an American based on the color of your skin. If a person sincerely believed that they were as good as I believe I am, they would demand to be held to the same standard as me.
My wife works from home.
She is alone all day.
We live close enough to Main Street that ghetto dregs come through our neighborhood every single day.
They are looking for stuff to steal so that they can pawn it to buy drugs.
They are not just black and Mexican bums and the mentally ill but also recently released black and Mexican prisoners just released from Huntsville state prison.
Nextdoor has saved her bacon more than once.
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