* Nice little company you got here. Sure would be a shame if the DoJ found evidence of discriminatory practices…
* We are all small-town Christian pizza makers now.
* Hotel lodging WILL be desegregated and diversified.
Excuse me sir, but two whites sharing a hotel room simply will not do.
Why?
This is 2016.
Madame, here is a gentleman of color ready to take the place of your white companion.
You may proceed to to your room and make yourselves comfortable, while the white gentleman remains here to arrange for payment.
* AirBnB is built on SWPL types. It is also very successful startup, with an imputed market cap of over $20 billion.
The renters have their social media persona, which include all sorts of stuff that would be totally illegal to ask. They just volunteer it. People are self profiling.
* I fail to see the novelty in Airbnb. People have been renting out their mountain cabins, beach homes, and other vacation properties for years. My family has used sites like “Big Bear Rentals Dot Com” since the early 2000s, and every time you rent, you have to satisfy the owners, in various ways, that you’re not going to trash their place. The things they ask or the sort of safety deposit they demand has always struck me as being blatantly discriminatory.
Yet vacation home owners have gotten away with it for many years. Why is Airbnb getting in trouble for facilitating the same sorts of transactions that have been going on for decades in places like Big Bear, Laguna Beach, the Maine coast, etc. . . .?
* I never seem to tire of posting the first two sentences from the CIA World Factbook page on the economy of Liberia, which has been independent since about 1850, and where Whites are not allowed to be citizens:
Liberia is a low income country that relies heavily on foreign assistance. It is richly endowed with water, mineral resources, forests, and a climate favorable to agriculture.
* My guess is that hiring Eric Holder is a way to give themselves some cover, while they try to craft some kind of policies that will let landlords keep deciding whom to let stay in their homes, while also taking cosmetic steps to reduce discrimination.
I think the best practical anti-discrimination step they could take would be some kind of background check available for would-be renters. If the landlord fears that a black renter will trash the place, demanding they stop fearing that or stop reacting to that fear is pretty useless. Addressing the fear (this guy has an excellent credit rating, no criminal record, and a solid job, and we’ll offer you $100K of insurance against him trashing the place for a small fee) might actually help.
* Too many property owners want the upside of using someone else to handle their property without realizing that their laziness costs them in the end. Nobody is going to treat your property as you would.
My Florida-dwelling mom wanted to spend some time on Cape Cod last summer “while I still can”, so she rented a beautiful place in Brewster from a private owner: 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, private beach, etc., all for $3,600 for 10 days. The leasing form was more involved and intrusive than my mortgage application. There was an additional $750 damage deposit.
We had a wonderful time. My mom, being my mom, spent her last day bossing us around in a top-to-bottom scrubdown of the place. I think it was cleaner than when we got there.
The kicker is that she got a note from the owner, along with the deposit refund, telling Mom that she was welcome to rent the place in the future with a 15% discount and the deposit waived, the discount essentially being what she’d have paid a property manager.
* YouTube hires British politician (and well-known fuckwit) as head of diversity.
Immigrants taking the jobs of AA extortionists!
