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I've always considered it a legitimate request when people want to live with others of the same gender for a shared room in their home. For example, you especi
by tedmiston 10y ago
I've always considered it a legitimate request when people want to live with others of the same gender for a shared room in their home.
For example, you especially see this on sites like Craigslist when people are seeking roommates. This policy seems to overturn the ability of hosts to do this. If I were a female in an all female home renting out one room, it would make me uncomfortable. Perhaps other do not see this as an issue in short-term renting, but I do.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoAlso, they're attacking whites only here. What if blacks wanted a black person. Or a Chinese person who only speaks Chinese and writes only in Mandarin wants the same. The left will give these people exceptions for "cutlural" reasons. They just want to regulate race and commerce on their unquestionable terms. This has nothing to do with equality. Its just a power-grab by political opportunists and misguided idealists. The same way you have campus "safe spaces" where men aren't allowed or affirmative action quotas.
- ritchiea 10y agoHave you considered the fact that whites discriminating against blacks is commonplace in the United States (as well as many other countries) while accounts of whites feeling discriminated against by people of color is much more rare?
- oh_sigh 10y agoWhich makes sense, because whites constitute 60+% whereas blacks constitute 13%. Even if everything in the world was exactly equal, including percent of racist whites and blacks, blacks(or really, the group with fewer members) would experience more racism because of the disparity in population numbers.
- ebfe 10y agoThe majority of white people believe that discrimination against whites is more common than discrimination against people of color, actually. Ask your average middle class white person about affirmative action, preferential access for minorities to grants/loans, etc.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoPlenty of dudes are convinced that society is "anti-male", you can get some examples in the "Ask a Female Engineer" thread currently going on.
- ebfe 10y agoRight. I have no idea whether it's a majority like it is with whites, but I would also disagree with a claim that very few men feel discriminated against.
- 6dqh5yapl3 10y agoI don't see any basis for what you are talking about anywhere in AirBNB's policy: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrimination-policy--our-commitment-to-inclusion-and-respect https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrim...
- tedmiston 10y agoUpdate: My assumption is incorrect. Airbnb has added a policy specifically to permit this use case -- see "Gender" section. https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrimination-policy--our-commitment-to-inclusion-and-respect https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrim...