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Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination (npr.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Acknowledging that his company has "been slow on this issue," Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky is rolling out changes aimed at addressing discrimination complaints against the home rental service. Among the changes: de-emphasizing the role of user photos in arranging stays. Here are some of the other changes Airbnb announced Thursday: Providing assistance to people who feel they've experienced discrimination; Anti-bias training for all staff; Setting public diversity goals for staff; Partnering with historically black colleges and universities to strengthen their recruitment pipeline. The move comes after longstanding complaints from African-American Airbnb customers who said their booking requests were turned down at a high rate. Black Airbnb users vented their frustration with the phenomenon of being rejected for a booking date -- only to see the same place get listed once again -- spawning the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack on Twitter. And those frustrations were borne out in a study that sent 6,400 requests to AirBnb hosts in five large U.S. cities; the requests were identical except for the customer's name. As the Hidden Brain podcast reported, "requests with African-American sounding names were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted than their white-sounding counterparts."
Instead of forcing society to pretend problems don't exist maybe we should solve them.
Black mean IQ is low and they struggle.
Your verbiage indicates your ignorance and that is okay. Wear it with pride.
The thing is, I should state that I don't think you should be required to let any and all make use of your services. If you don't want to let black people come then, by all means, you not only shouldn't have to but should be able to categorically dismiss all such inquiries from the beginning by clearly articulating so in your listing.
How to put this in words that ignorant people will understand?
I think you should be able to put, in big letters at the very top of your listing - should you desire, "NO NIGGERS!" They may want you to use different words, surely there is some dog whistle you can find? I am not sure why they would actually care. Some people, such as yourself, are kind of ignorant and want everyone to know it. They should offer reasonable accommodation for such and surely would help in ensuring that racist folks didn't end up with the "wrong" race by mistake.
Hire someone with kids? You nuts? Every other day that rugrat is sick and your employer is late 'cause they have to drop it off with some daycare, they want to take days off 'cause it screeches in some school show. Not to mention that I cannot relocate them without a hassle. Or have them work late 'cause they got to be home for their dependents...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.