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Give me a break. Not everybody that disagrees with you is a racist. Landlord that prefer to not have couples with children aren’t racist. I too am confused how

by vsl 8y ago

Give me a break. Not everybody that disagrees with you is a racist. Landlord that prefer to not have couples with children aren’t racist. I too am confused how targeting may be illegal under a law that forbids discrimination and discriminating content of ads - I am not familiar with the law. Lack of knowledge/understanding doesn’t make me “racist”. Some other comments in this inflammatory thread helped me get the point, but your attacks on everybody as racists-by-defaul are deeply bigoted and insulting.

pests 8y ago
Not by default. After posting a comment supportive of denying the possibility of buying a house based on race and then making up rationalizations for why it's okay. Do you really believe in all of the hundreds of comments from various commentors that not one person here could actually really really in fact be racist? Thinking about it, people who disagree with me by thinking that it is okay to deny housing based on race is by definition racist, no? The fact is clearly spelled out in law. I'm not even saying someone disagrees with me. Where do you see that? I stated that there is casual racism in this thread. I understand there is confusion in the law regarding targeting specifically. But stand back and take a look at the bigger picture of what the technology we create could allow. Like other real self proclaimed proud racists who would only use the service without understanding how it works. It's not that it's targeting. It's not allowing those your not targeting to be part of the open market. If you are something, someone calling it out is not an attack or bigotry. Sometimes the truth hurts.
- bonzini 8y ago
  Most people are stating that the responsibility lies within the landlords and not Facebook. There is no disagreement the landlords are being racist.

3 ms·

Give me a break. Not everybody that disagrees with you is a racist. Landlord that prefer to not have couples with children aren’t racist. I too am confused how

by vsl 8y ago

pests 8y ago
Not by default. After posting a comment supportive of denying the possibility of buying a house based on race and then making up rationalizations for why it's okay. Do you really believe in all of the hundreds of comments from various commentors that not one person here could actually really really in fact be racist? Thinking about it, people who disagree with me by thinking that it is okay to deny housing based on race is by definition racist, no? The fact is clearly spelled out in law. I'm not even saying someone disagrees with me. Where do you see that? I stated that there is casual racism in this thread. I understand there is confusion in the law regarding targeting specifically. But stand back and take a look at the bigger picture of what the technology we create could allow. Like other real self proclaimed proud racists who would only use the service without understanding how it works. It's not that it's targeting. It's not allowing those your not targeting to be part of the open market. If you are something, someone calling it out is not an attack or bigotry. Sometimes the truth hurts.
- bonzini 8y ago
  Most people are stating that the responsibility lies within the landlords and not Facebook. There is no disagreement the landlords are being racist.