No Bigots Need Book An Airbnb Room
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Lol. You're unbelievable! You're digging your hole even deeper!
Go look up the definition of racism.
That's not what the rules say, at least not the ones posted by the OP.
That's exactly what the rules say. They say that you must commit to treat everyone without judgement. No ifs, no buts, no qualifications. No judgement. At all. For anyone. For any reason.
It's the way English works. Text inside a sentence but clearly seperated by it by punctuation is explicitly being stated to be not integral to the meaning of the sentence. If, for example, I was to write "You must buy every pair of shoes - with or without laces - in the shop" that means "You must buy every pair of shoes in the shop". Text seperated out that way is at most just supplementary information. Removing it doesn't and can't change the meaning of the sentence.
It might or might not be what Airbnb meant, but it is what they wrote and it is therefore what their customers must commit to if they want to continue using Airbnb. It forms part of the terms and conditions.
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So your argument is that you are agreeing to accept rapist paedophiles in to your home because of how they worded their email?
When we all know that's not the case.
Good luck with making assumptions that legally binding contracts are irrelevant because you decide what they mean regardless of what's actually written in them.
"we all" don't know what Airbnb intended to mean. We only know what they wrote and what that means.
You need a bit more training if you're going to be a SJW. You have the fake outrage working, you answer all your posts in questions, so that's working well as a newbie SJW, but you need to brush up on common sense.
Treat people with respect and without judgment or bias doesn't mean you can't ever reject another booking for any reason as you claimed, you just need a respectful reason that isn't formed from being judgemental or biased.
I respectfully don't want a family of 6 north African immigrants staying in my house.
I respectfully don't want a group of 18yo Australian backpackers staying in my house.
I don't need a reason that'll satisfy people I'd never meet or never care to meet, it's my place, I decide.
I assume your definition of an SJW covers pretty much anyone with a non ultra conservative, centre right, central or left wing slant then?
Check out Amp34, MikeTheNative. Remember to add 'loaded questions' into your toolkit!
Thats a yes then.
Check out one of the people that complains about the overuse of terms like racist, yet then tried to overuse the term SJW.
I can't be a racist, 'I have black friends'
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Thats a yes then.
Check out one of the people that complains about the overuse of terms like racist, yet then tried to overuse the term SJW.
I want a world where everyone treats each other equal and with respect, how SJW of me.
I can't be a racist, 'I have black friends'
TBH I'm not a huge fan of overarching "requirements" like the terms in the OP, but then you see responses in threads like this* and realise why these sort of requirements are actually needed.
Trying to tar people with broad brushes like "SJW" and "racist" doesn't help matters, especially when the word is so overused it does become meaningless.
*Just a general observation, not aimed at anyone or any comment in particular.
TBH I'm not a huge fan of overarching "requirements" like the terms in the OP, but then you see responses in threads like this* and realise why these sort of requirements are actually needed.
Trying to tar people with broad brushes like "SJW" and "racist" doesn't help matters, especially when the word is so overused it does become meaningless.
*Just a general observation, not aimed at anyone or any comment in particular.
I know. And I also know you're smart enough to realise that I freely use the term SJW to people that freely use 'racism' to drive home a weak argument.
Neither helps and both are equally dumb.
In the end, people are going to do what people are going to do. Some will be bigots, some will be more accommodating to others, some will straddle the fence. You try and force your views on people, guys like Trump suddenly become very popular.
The rules don't say that hosts have to accept all bookings. It only states that Airbnb members must treat everyone with "respect, and without judgment or bias". If someone is planning to do something illegal at your property then you're well within your rights to refuse their booking.
What you can't do is refuse a booking because you think that people of type X are likely criminals.
No Irish, no blacks, no dogs, eh?
I'm afraid that's against the law in the UK.
That's not what the rule states. Refusing their booking is making a judgement and therefore again the stated rules. Two judgements, actually. First you're making a judgement about what they will do and then you're making a judgement about whether or not you judge the things that you judge they will do to be acceptable to you or not.
Even thinking about refusing their booking is making a judgement.
I suspect that Airbnb is deliberately using meaningless buzzwords so they can portray themselves as doing something while not being tied to doing or not doing anything about anything.
You can't make a judgement without judgement. That should be obvious. No action or chosen inaction is possible without judgement. The only time a person doesn't use judgement is when they're unconscious (and maybe not even then). You used your judgement to choose to make a reply. You used your judgement to decide what words to type. Etc. Even when people are genuinely referred to as having not used their judgement, what that actually means is that they made a bad judgement. For example, when I was a child I tried to jump a river on a pedal bike. I judged that I could do it and I judged that it was a good idea to do it. I was wrong on both counts and I'm sure some people would say that I hadn't used my judgement. They'd be wrong - my judgement was bad, not non-existent.
Or are you using "judgement" to mean "only those judgements that I disagree with"?