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Once upon a time, an actual bank robber crashed his car after a high speed chase and ran into my neighborhood. The police cordoned off a few blocks and were sea
by ungreased0675 3y ago
Once upon a time, an actual bank robber crashed his car after a high speed chase and ran into my neighborhood. The police cordoned off a few blocks and were searching, but weren’t sure where the person was.
I attempted to post an alert on NextDoor, and that’s when I learned all about their anti-racism and inclusion filtering. The platform automatically lectures you if you’re posting a “look out for this suspicious person” post.
- bdcravens 3y agoIt's due to the "boy that cried wolf" way that people use those platforms. For years, Nextdoor (and Ring Neighbors), in the areas I've lived, have been mostly fearmongering about those of the wrong shade being "suspicious" (often it's just a door-to-door person hawking electricity, or solar, or whatever - I hate those salespeople as much as anyone, but the discussions made it sound like they were all trying to break into homes)
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI'm pretty sure parent just mentioned a physical description of the person the police were looking for, and that entailed a certain skin color that will get your post automatically taken down. There was a murder last week, the police have a description of the person, but they aren't allowed to say it (or the media platforms aren't passing it on), so we should all be on the look out for a person driving a white Porsche, they have hair and a hoody, they are dangerous, good luck. Mentioning race at all is taboo, since if they just do it when the perpetrator is white, then we will all just assume they are non-white when race is not mentioned.