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Zeus posted...

Because f***ing over your neighborhood is a dick move?

And where do we draw the line there? Should she be sued for painting her house anything other than the three most popular shades of beige, for fear of harming property values? Should she be sued for having anything other than grass growing on her property? For driving a car that might harm the neighbourhood's image? Hell, given the anti-Asian racism running rampant following Covid, one could suggest that the mere fact that she's an Asian-American hurts her neighbours' property values (since there are many people who wouldn't want an Asian neighbour). Should she move out to be considerate of that?

Let people exercise some individuality in decorating their own homes. There are more than enough cookie-cutter suburbs out there governed by totalitarian HOA's for the people that get off on exerting that kind of control over their neighbours' lives. If that's what her neighbours want, they can sell their houses to people that don't hate fun and move to one of them.

Of course, all of this is without pointing out that you're generally quite defensive of people that come under fire for flying swastikas and confederate flags on their houses, citing freedom of expression and whatnot. How interesting that property values don't seem to matter there, yet are of the utmost importance here.

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