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Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by LambdaComplex »

throwawaysea wrote: post #45

I find it interesting that Airbnb has banned many conservative people and groups from using their service but readily make room for Afghan refugees. These discriminatory practices are always wrapped in virtuous justifications but are never applied to the other political side. And how does this move make sense when they could be doing the same for homeless people already in America and elsewhere, who are clearly depri…

> this is so glaringly a PR move to basically gain amplified marketing

Congrats, you've stumbled upon the open secret of....literally every single for-profit corporation on the planet!

Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by perihelions »

jhallenworld wrote: post #32

Airbnb is available in Kabul, had no idea.. https://www.airbnb.com/s/Kabul--Afghanistan/homes?tab_id=hom... Google reviews also interesting, nice restaurant in Kandahar.. https://www.google.com/maps/place/AFGHAN+SHINWARI+RESTAURANT...

Looks like they have a rich trove of data on westerners and western sympathizers. I don't think Airbnb is thinking enough about protecting these rental records -- I can see the names and faces of previous guests even on public pages (those who left reviews). There must be tons of PII available to anyone who can access the Airbnb hosts' accounts.

edit: Also, the photos are full of things that immediately imperil the hosts -- innocuous details ranging from music disks to wine glasses to risque art prints.

Why are these pages still public?

Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by throwawaysea »

Trias11 wrote: post #12

Wouldn't it be easier to make Afghanistan a 51st state? And let 'em keep their culture and religion locally instead of repossessing them?

It may have been preferable for the Afghan people, the vast majority of whom prefer a democracy with election processes, and the vast majority of whom are young and mostly know the post-Taliban life under America's watch. It's unfortunate that America threw away its foothold in the region and has created another set of humanitarian crises - and I don't mean just displaced refugees but also women who will be brutally oppressed under Taliban rule.

Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by kbos87 »

eat_veggies wrote: post #20
coding123 wrote: post #3

I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?

If you think this is some gotcha (you can't help with Afghan refugees during a crisis until you've solved homelessness ?) then you never cared about the homeless in the first place, and are using them as a pawn when it's useful to dunk on the middle east.

I don’t think that’s fair. I drive past hundreds of homeless people who are already here in the US every day. I applaud Airbnb for this move, but I also can’t ignore the fact that it’s a moment in the news cycle that determines these people are getting help and these ones aren’t.

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Post by matchbok »

throwawaysea wrote: post #45

I find it interesting that Airbnb has banned many conservative people and groups from using their service but readily make room for Afghan refugees. These discriminatory practices are always wrapped in virtuous justifications but are never applied to the other political side. And how does this move make sense when they could be doing the same for homeless people already in America and elsewhere, who are clearly depri…

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Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by batch12 »

vincentmarle wrote: post #33
batch12 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oddly enough, I don't think the owners would volunteer properties for that.

You think they would for Afghan refugees?

I do think that people would be more likely to offer accommodation to these refugees right now, yes. In three months? Probably not so much.

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Post by hourislate »

coding123 wrote: post #3

I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?

Can you imagine if America spent 2 trillion (cost it spent trying to help Afghan people) on its homeless and poor. Could barely get them a fucking $1200 check after shutting down the economy for a year.

Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees

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Post by jdavis703 »

slumdev wrote: post #34
junon wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you implying that the US has rights over Afghanistan?

It did until a few days ago.

At least legally, the US had no “rights” over Afghanistan. Afghanistan was not a colony, territory or state of the US. The government was “free” to kick out the US whenever they wanted.
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