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No? Your understanding of racism is wrong, I think. It's not a "I'm going to reserve my airbnb for my racial group only!" it's: "I'm uncomfortable letting some
by civilian 10y ago
No? Your understanding of racism is wrong, I think.
It's not a "I'm going to reserve my airbnb for my racial group only!" it's: "I'm uncomfortable letting someone of another race rent my house, because I am not familiar enough with their culture to know if they're going to wreck my house or not."
Racism & sexism are bad business practices. *-ists have to operate in a smaller labor or customer pool in order to operate. The AirBnB operator lost 30 minutes of organization in this blog, so you're either wasting time or you end hiring a lower-quality member of your own racial group.
I'll make the claim that: as long as resource scarcity exists, there is an economic pressure to be less racist.
- googletazer 10y agoRationally - yes absolutely. If there is a scarcity of tenants, why would you want to turn them away for any reason. I was talking in the terms of the human unconscious - the knowledge reaffirmed your entire life, and for as long as humans existed that stuff is scarce. And if stuff is scarce and that affects your survival - you might as well secure it for yourself and your group (the reason being that your immediate group is more likelly to support you, e.g arabs got a proverb about this - me against my brother, me and my brother against the men of our village, our village against another village, and so on). If resource scarcity could be alleviated through cheap energy, that might modify this base human survival mechanism which is a reason for in-groups/out-groups.