What a coincidence
Airbnb and Uber, the two companies that have decimated traditional rip off business, with their disruptive technology and commonsense approach are the two companies it's fashionable to hate...
Dear racist Airbnb host, we've enrolled you in an Asian American studies course
An Airbnb host who cancelled a guest's booking at the last minute because she was Asian has been fined $5,000 and told to attend a course on Asian American studies. Tami Barker owns a mountain cabin in Big Bear, California, northeast of Los Angeles, and it was booked by law clerk Dyne Suh for a skiing weekend back in February …
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Sunday 16th July 2017 13:48 GMT Gravis Ultrasound
Reading the headline, my head was spinning: This author writes about something non-trump related...oh wait, the guy mentioned Trump...yeah Great Scoop Kboy... a non-IT negative Trump story!
#RESIST #RESIST #RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is just like the Nazi occupation man,
#RESIST #RESIST#RESIST
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Sunday 16th July 2017 19:57 GMT patrickstar
I don't understand anti-discrimination laws. Why would you want to give money to someone who hates you, to the point where you force them to receive it by law?
Wouldn't it just be easier to cut a check straight to The Daily Stormer if you want to support racism that bad?
In this case there seems to be some issues of contract etc due to the cancelling on such short notice (which you certainly wouldn't need anti-discrimination laws to enforce), but in other cases...
And, uhm, shouldn't private property rights be considered just a tad more important than someone's right not to be offended? Especially when it's about someone staying at your home...
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Monday 17th July 2017 14:42 GMT Fector
Yeah, it was too much to expect you guys understand any of this as your country even went to war to sell more opium. You are morally defunct as a nation. You always have been and always will be.
And all that aggressive money grabbing got you nowhere. Your GDP per capita PPP is about the same as that of South Korea where Suh was born.
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Monday 17th July 2017 18:56 GMT patrickstar
Do you realize the sheer hilarity of using an argument that discriminates towards people based on their country of origin to ... argue for laws against discrimination towards people based on their country of origin?
Nobody is guilty of anything based on the perceived sins of their ancestors. Is that a really hard concept to apply?
Or do you think it only apply to non-whites? There's certainly no lack of historical immoral behavior from various Asian nations, after all...
PS. I'm not from the US...
PS/2. Reading up a bit on this case, apparently there was no discrimination whatsoever involved, just some harsh words when the guest appeared demanding things outside the original agreement. Considering name and photo are shown on AirBnB, any rejection of a guest based on race would have happened much earlier.
Not that any of this makes any anti-discrimination or affirmitive action legislation any less morally bankrupt, but still...
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Tuesday 18th July 2017 07:33 GMT Fector
According to you, the US should not have apologized to and made compensation to Japanese Americans for internment during WWII. Because that comes from today's taxpayers while the deeds were carried out by generations most of whom died already.
There is a world of difference between holding individuals responsible for the actions of predecessors and acknowledging collective responsibility especially if the crimes of the past resulted in a definitive and long lasting economic legacy that benefited the perpetrators of the crime and their brazen descendants such as you who are devoid of any decent human qualities such as a sense of justice, respect for humanity and ,most of all, simply an ability to feel shame and remorse.
Your argument is too convenient for a country that was the most aggressive and vilest imperialist in all human history; a country that even went to war to sell drugs, a country that encouraged cannibalism because you considered Africans to be monkeys.(Oh you don't know this tale of British explorers in South Africa, do you?) It is all too convenient since British soccer fans are the worst in the world and FIFA regularly punish Brits collectively. According to you this should not be done because not all British soccer fans engaged in riots.
Tammy Barker accepted Suh initially because at the time it was not completely certain that her cabin would be rented for the weekend. That does not mean she is not racist. Not all racists are as committed as Ku Klus Klan or you.
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Tuesday 18th July 2017 23:09 GMT patrickstar
Your argument is a complete non-sequitur. And full of ad hominems too, if we're gonna go heavy on the Latin.
Was this AirBnB host involved in any way in interning Japanese during WWII? No.
Was this Asian guest interned during WWII? No.
Thus it's completely irrelevant to whether the guest has any claim to the property of the host.
Are you trying to argue for some sort of collective racial guilt?
That has a history of turning ugly pretty quickly...
What about all the war crimes committed by the Japanese during WWII, by the way? Do all Japanese alive today also share in the guilt for that, or does this collective guilt thing only apply to whites?
And let me get this straight. She first accepted the guest, well knowing that the person in question was Asian. After that, and a lot of back and forth with the guest, she had a sudden flash of "non-committed racism"?
You do realize this starts to sound a lot like you made up your mind as soon as you heard "non-white person is angry at white person, mean words were exchanged" and are now grabbing at everything to support your pre-conceived idea that this was some horrible evil racist hate crime?
Following your argument for collective guilt of a whole group for the historical actions of individuals, shouldn't blacks in the US start paying reparations to whites because of their overrepresentation as a group when it comes to crime in general and black-on-white crime (significantly more common than the other way around) in particular? See where your argument goes once you actually stop and think about it?
(N.B. I don't think they should, since I don't subscribe to ideas of collective guilt.)
PS. I'm still not from the US. I also happen to be from a country without any of the colonial history you mention. Not that any of that is in any way relevant to the validity of the argument. Or relevant for making anti-discrimination laws any less wrong.
PS/2. If we're bringing up African colonial history and slave trade, when are Arabs going to start paying reparations to the US for the - once significant - slave trade in white Americans? The first (post-independence) war of the US was to stop this after all - it's not some minor historical glitch...
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