Interestingly according to the article a similar program was already being operated by airbnb.
Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees
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#62Now if we can just figure out how to get more of them out of there. Edited: clarity
AirBnB offering accommodations is like the US government promising to take every refugee, only _after_ the airport has been closed off. They just gotta find a way into the airport, and we'll take care of the rest.
https://twitter.com/Abihabib/status/1430231520820797442 https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1430284770680913921
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#63I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
They don’t care about Afghans just scoring brand points. Businesses exist to make money and the fact they thought this might help there branding in effort to make more money says more about society really than it does about this company in particular.
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#64Would you prefer to stay in a hotel or a refugee shelter? That's what this campaign says to me at the gut level. Might be nice and altruistic, but it's kind of lousy brand marketing.
I'd prefer to do business with a company that chose to help people in this way.
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#65Their stock had been pretty steady around 145ish for the past month and it seems like it rose 10% today on these news.
Re: Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees
#66Now if we can just figure out how to get more of them out of there. Edited: clarity
AirBnB offering accommodations is like the US government promising to take every refugee, only _after_ the airport has been closed off. They just gotta find a way into the airport, and we'll take care of the rest. https://twitter.com/Abihabib/status/1430231520820797442 https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1430284770680913921
Yeah, this is how we turn friends into enemies.
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#67I 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.
> dunk on the middle east.
So, the Middle East includes Afghanistan now? I swear the borders seem to advance every year.
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#68I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
I see this argument in relation to refugees pretty often. It seems to insinuate that we are spending more on refugees than we are on homeless shelters.
SF is prepared to spend 1.1 billion to address homelessness, which I think is just shy of the federal refugee program budget.
The fights to combat exclusionary / single family zoning are in part to create more affordable housing.
It seems we, as a society, are doing a lot to fight homelessness, but relatively little to help resettle refugees.
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#69I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
Why is an American’s life worth more than an Afghans?
While I disagree with the parent on helping US citizens first, I don't think it's generally wrong to put your own people first if you have to choose. That doesn't mean that other people are worth less, it simply means that, if you can choose one or the other, it's not generally reprehensible to choose people close to you, at least in my opinion.
Imagine, for example, a natural disaster strikes and you're forced to either save the live of your own child or a complete stranger. Anyone would choose his own child (assuming exactly similar circumstances). That does not mean the other childs live is worth less. It's exactly the same thing if it's about people in your country or a foreign one - of course, your relation is less intense, but it still holds.
Other comments explain why you'd choose contrary to this in this case, but I don't think we should assume bad faith in the parent.
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#70I 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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Lotta downvotes, but this is true. Sorry trumpers :)