Now Airbnb Jump On The Bandwagon Of The Policically Correct

[dieseldick]

The Airbnb Community Commitment
" Hi,
Earlier this year, we launched a comprehensive effort to fight bias and discrimination in the Airbnb community. As a result of this effort, we’re asking everyone to agree to a Community Commitment beginning November 1, 2016. Agreeing to this commitment will affect your use of Airbnb, so we wanted to give you a heads up about it.
What is the Community Commitment?
You commit to treat everyone—regardless of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age—with respect, and without judgement or bias."

so if i host on airbnb and i do not want any muslim staying in my house then that is against their policy .

so, the question is , if your a host on airbnb would you accomodate a young muslim man or a woman in a burhka ?

[naomi24]

Jim, I don't understand your question. Why would it be?

[jim360]

When you signed up to this site, for example, you agreed to abide by its rules. Which includes not being allowed to post certain things, or say such-and-such, or ask this question or that. When you have a membership account on any other site, similarly, you have to abide by the T&Cs (whatever they are, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who never reads them). But at any rate being a member of anything erodes freedom of choice, to an extent.

So what I'm saying is that I think your statement is unhelpfully vague. Do you always refuse to sign something as soon as your freedom to choose is threatened (ie all the time, by definition), or is it just this particular loss of freedom of choice that would put you off? Not that I have anything against that, exactly -- it's up to you whom you invite, or not, to your house, just as it's up to airbnb to set standards that its members are expected to meet if they wish to use its service.

[naomi24]

Jim, that’s a bit of a convoluted argument. I wouldn’t sign up to anything if I wasn’t happy with the terms and conditions. In this instance I wouldn’t be happy and therefore I wouldn’t sign up.

//it's up to you whom you invite, or not, to your house//

Precisely.

[jim360]

So long as you also agree with the second part of the sentence you quoted? Airbnb has freedom, if you like, over the people it chooses to allow to use its service.

[naomi24]

Jim, the second part of what sentence?

[jim360]

the first half: "...it's up to you whom you invite, or not, to your house" that you quoted.

the second half: "just as it's up to airbnb to set standards that its members are expected to meet if they wish to use its service." -- that you didn't for some reason.

[naomi24]

Jim, "just as it's up to airbnb to set standards that its members are expected to meet if they wish to use its service."

What's to say about that? It's a given.

[jim360]

Cool. Glad to be in agreement then.

[Zacs-Master]

It's a bit 'after the fact' tho isn't it. Set up a website with no discrimination policy; get millions of members and then impose a discrimination policy?

[hc4361]

It's no different to the Christian B&B owners who refused to let a gay couple share a double bed. It's illegal.

[naomi24]

hc4361, it might be illegal - but that doesn't make it right.

[hc4361]

Discrimination wasn't right in the 60s and 70s and it isn't right now. I remember those signs outside lodging houses and the dreadful doss houses in Birmingham mainly populated by Irish workers because they couldn't get anything better.

[naomi24]

And you think that isn't happening still?

http://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/london/upton/2608607

People should be allowed to decide who they have in their home.

[dieseldick]

" It's no different to the Christian B&B owners who refused to let a gay couple share a double bed. It's illegal. "

it should not be illegal

i still think that people should decide who they feel comfortable with in their own home , airbnb when you sign up state that you will be penilized approx $50 if you refuse to host anyone. not fair but then again some of you are correct, if you dont like it then dont sign up.

[hc4361]

Haven't you had to eject some AirB&Bers from your home, DD? Did they seem okay to you when you let them in?

You can't tell a murdering nutter just by looking at him or her.

[naomi24]

dieseldick, // if you dont like it then dont sign up. //

That's the answer. No problem.

[ichkeria]

I'll just state the bl***ding obvious that some others have: want to discriminate against usitord to your home on the grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, dress etc fine.
But don't do airbnb then, and it's good that they're just making that clear, just like its good that Uber have been brought to ok by tribunal. At least airbnb have taken the initiative

[ichkeria]

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[wildwood]

Back to the OP..... "if your a host on airbnb would you accomodate a young muslim man or a woman in a burhka ?".

I would have to or I'd be breaking the law, but as I would not join an organisation that make special provisions for distinct religious groups, I wouldn't be in that position.

btw. from mention in other answers...... Is it now illegal be homosexual in Britain? I thought that went out over 40 years ago.