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Thanks. I fixed it. Lol at me getting downvoted for pointing out the obvious "black person walking in the neighborhood" racism that's rampant on nextdoor though.

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Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The platform is filled with racist Karen’s scared of a black person’s shadow. Embarrassing they don’t take more of stance against it.

Any measure they could take would likely just result in people posting the same drivel while leaving out the race of the person.

Is that not better? Serious question.

As long as the rule is not surface deep and people can't just turn to coded language where x_code_word always mean some_person_of_color. People will be forced to reconsider their language and hopefully their thinking.

Would depend on the form Nextdoor racism takes. If they talk needlessly about it after the initial report like about how they've been "seeing too many of those lately" it could work. If, however, Nextdoor racism is users just reporting black people who aren't doing anything suspicious, I suspect they'd just switch to specifying race for everyone except black people.

Hey now. Don’t be sexist and forget to mention the Ken’s.

You also shouldn't be transphobic and assume their gender if some of 'them' are also transgender themselves for the sake of absolute 'inclusivity'. /s

Perhaps it was because you were pointing the finger at others while manifesting obvious prejudice yourself. (The comment originally read "Is he also".)

Sorry for assuming a tech company CEO is a man. What was I thinking?

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