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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> just because they don't like someone Way to diminish the hatred she has made a living propagating.

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Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> just because they don't like someone Way to diminish the hatred she has made a living propagating.

Her parents haven't.

This doesn't engage with anything I said at all: it just repeats "I don't like her" except stronger, and tries to dismiss things just because I didn't condemn this Lauren Southern person strong enough – whether she is good or bad or literally Hitler is completely irrelevant here.

Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family.

This is a private business doing what it pleases. This is nothing like throwing away civilization. That could be said however about the hate and dog whistling she perpetuates.

There are consequences of being a pile of shit, and those consequences reach past oneself. To refuse that reality seems pretty naive to me.

Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. This is a private business doing what it pleases. This is nothing like throwing away civilization. That could be said however…

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Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

They are the modern version of puritanical fundamentalists.

Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. This is a private business doing what it pleases. This is nothing like throwing away civilization. That could be said however…

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Re: Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it rather concerning how quickly and gleefully some people throw away basic precepts of our civilisation just because they don't like someone. I thought we figured out that individuals should be treated as individuals, and not by any personal attributes they may have, such as family. Should the parents of Jeffery Dahmer be banned from AirBnB? Or the parents of a convicted murderer or rapist who has since been…

> just because they don't like someone Way to diminish the hatred she has made a living propagating.

Wait until the tables turn.

I can see it now.

"Whoopi Goldberg denied AirBnB access for insinuiating assault against White people [1]"

How far we have fallen as a society.

1 - https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-asks-if-we-nee...

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