Won't You Be My 'Helpful, Not Hurtful' Neighbor?

American Thinker ^ | 16 Mar, 2020 | Janet Levy

[MtnClimber]

…...My own experience with viewpoint discrimination on a micro-level occurred on Election Day, March 3, when I joined a discussion with neighbors on the Nextdoor app. Residents within specific neighborhoods use this public forum to discuss issues of mutual interest such as local burglary reports, local restaurant reviews, and plumber referrals.

Under a thread entitled "Know your Voting Rights — The Poll Workers May Not," neighbors were talking about being asked to show their IDs at the polls. Some also discussed voter fraud. I participated by supplying a link to a PragerU video, "Is Voter Fraud Real?," produced by the Government Accountability Institute, a nonprofit conservative think-tank founded by best-selling author and political consultant Peter Schweizer and Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist to President Trump.

The PragerU video featured investigative reporter Eric Eggers, who explained three sources of voter fraud: 1) phony voters on the rolls, 2) ballot-harvesting, and 3) voting by non-citizens. Eggers explained that in 244 U.S. counties, more registered voters exist than the number of people legally eligible to vote; that in 29 counties, more registered voters are listed than the number of legal residents; and that eight states have more registered voters than actual people of voting age. (snip)

After simply contributing the link with the description "excellent video," I was wholly unprepared for the backlash that came my way. A Nextdoor netizen responded, "Prager is a whackjob racist and so are you," which she followed up with "Screenshot! I'm reporting you!" Someone else wrote that repercussions exist for being racist and sharing "low-key microaggressions" and that "people have to watch what they say or type in public forums because there are consequences." I was dismissed as a "Trumpette; basically, a racist cheerleader."

[MtnClimber]

The tolerance of the left is fake news.

[old-ager]

1. use their accusative words first. They don’t know what to do. E.g. “that sounds mildly racist” no matter what they said.

2. go ahead and report them. You will have good grounds to do so.

I have found nextdoor itself to not actually be a leftist operation the best I can tell.

It seems important to engage with leftists in the neighborhood. I don’t mean trying to convince them. I mean not withdrawing from the fight.

[PeterPrinciple]

use the Columbo technique. Ask dumb question until what they say even sounds stupid to them.

“there is one thing I don’t understand.............”

[G Larry]

If your "Next Door" mod really believed his accusations regarding Prager and Global Warming, then he would allow the post to fall of its own weight.

The problem is the moderator's inability to allow his viewpoint to be contrasted with the facts.

The Mod is a coward.