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Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

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Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think the host should be allowed to treat others that way?

Why do you ask such a silly question? Of course this is really shit, if it's true. The point is I don't know whether this situation took place in real world or just anti-trump pr action. How do you know? Why the hell trump is in article about shitty host ?

Apparently you didn't make it to the second paragraph of the article.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

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post #25
post #13

I do not see what forcing a class on someone like this (especially at their age) will accomplish. Does anyone really think a semester long course is going to make her go "well, gee whiz, guess I shouldn't discriminate against those Asians anymore"?

Honestly I think it's better than nothing. Discrimination like this is usually based on complete ignorance/lack of exposure to different cultures. A course on Asian cultures may actually have some effect of humanizing the asian people for this particular bigot.

Or it might have the opposite effect and further reinforce their lack of tolerance, especially if the course is taught from a position of outright hostility and antagonism rather than purely informational.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#43

This is an interesting article. It makes no mention of the controversy leading up to these comments. People generally aren't racist when it comes to money. The host was triggered into a racist tirade after being informed the renter was bringing 2 extra people and 2 extra dogs. The guest informed her hosts while on route in a snowstorm. It's well within the hosts rights to declare the contractual reservation null and…

> As a law student, she knew how to milk public sympathy

The law school curriculum is ever evolving isn't it..

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#44

As disgusting as the host's behavior is, her reasoning is correct: the political atmosphere has approved bigotry, racism, homophobia, and misogyny at the highest levels. Given that, how do we hold the public accountable for those offenses for which we forgive the state?

I'm not aware of any cases of the State denying rental housing based on race, so I don't really see any double standard.

There's certainly some individuals in the gov't that hold and voice racist views, but while that's pretty gross, and a good reason to vote against them, it isn't really relevant here. If the woman had just said "I hate Asians", she wouldn't have been subject to any legal troubles (though she'd hopefully received a good dollup of social opprobrium). So again, I don't really see any double standard.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#45

This is an interesting article. It makes no mention of the controversy leading up to these comments. People generally aren't racist when it comes to money. The host was triggered into a racist tirade after being informed the renter was bringing 2 extra people and 2 extra dogs. The guest informed her hosts while on route in a snowstorm. It's well within the hosts rights to declare the contractual reservation null and…

> 2 extra people

> giant weekend party

Hmm my frame of reference for 'giant party' must be different.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#47
post #13

I do not see what forcing a class on someone like this (especially at their age) will accomplish. Does anyone really think a semester long course is going to make her go "well, gee whiz, guess I shouldn't discriminate against those Asians anymore"?

New information may change her view, and it certainly has a better chance than just a fine. Financial punishment is a vital part, but it alone would reinforce the narrative she likely already has about the government taking her money and giving it to immigrants.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#48
post #13

I do not see what forcing a class on someone like this (especially at their age) will accomplish. Does anyone really think a semester long course is going to make her go "well, gee whiz, guess I shouldn't discriminate against those Asians anymore"?

Someone's getting kickbacks somewhere in the CA state government for it.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#49

This is an interesting article. It makes no mention of the controversy leading up to these comments. People generally aren't racist when it comes to money. The host was triggered into a racist tirade after being informed the renter was bringing 2 extra people and 2 extra dogs. The guest informed her hosts while on route in a snowstorm. It's well within the hosts rights to declare the contractual reservation null and…

For the record, it IS legal to refuse to rent to a lawyer.

Re: Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

#50
post #40

This is an interesting article. It makes no mention of the controversy leading up to these comments. People generally aren't racist when it comes to money. The host was triggered into a racist tirade after being informed the renter was bringing 2 extra people and 2 extra dogs. The guest informed her hosts while on route in a snowstorm. It's well within the hosts rights to declare the contractual reservation null and…

This just isn't true. The host already approved of the extra guests and the extra dogs and only reneged when the tenant was enroute. You're bending over backwards to apologize for this racist host. > "When Suh later asked if it was OK to bring two friends and two dogs along, Barker said it was fine but the group would need to pay an additional $50 a night, according to screenshots of their text messages." https://www…

> The host already approved of the extra guests and the extra dogs and only reneged when the tenant was enroute.

Looking at a chat history they show in the video (around 55 sec) it does not look like the host has approved extra guests and dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=55&v=nuZn8iVQbSc

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