Flat adverts that may be breaking the law

RoyMi6 said:
Think this is a good point. I'm not saying it's the case for every advert but I imagine that if I moved to India I might put up an advert saying that I'm looking for a fellow Scotsman to stay with. Wouldn't matter what race, creed, colour or sexuality they were but someone I would immediately have something in common with would be a good thing in my opinion. Hell, I would probably even write it in English to improve my odds! :)
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Scottish people can read?? :confused:
 
Up to the landlord/current tenants.

Best advert I've seen was on SpareRoom.com. A 55yo man looking for gays only, and below 21. I was like WTF...dodgy.

Old man liked young meat :/
 
I don't see what the problem is??

If you want to rent a property you own then surely you should be able to specify who can live there? Personal choice/racism/-ist all it what you want at the end of they day you should be able to chose who lives in your property.

Does not make great financial sense to exclude certain people though, providing they are not arsonists and can prove that they can and will pay the rent I couldn't care who I would rent to.
 
This is no different to adverts that have existed for years that say no children or pets.

You don't see people complaining about that, but thos OH NOES! IMMA DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

FFS, just move on will you. :rolleyes:
 
MeEsH BaKkA said:
I don't see what the problem is??

If you want to rent a property you own then surely you should be able to specify who can live there? Personal choice/racism/-ist all it what you want at the end of they day you should be able to chose who lives in your property.

Does not make great financial sense to exclude certain people though, providing they are not arsonists and can prove that they can and will pay the rent I couldn't care who I would rent to.
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As said, as an employer with your own business should you be able to discriminate against people for the same reasons? It doesn't make great financial sense to ignore people who may be the best people for the job, but you think it's ok to pick and choose, so long as it's your own business?

The whole idea of these laws is not necessarily to completely eradicate prejudice, but to show society that blatant prejudice for such reasons is not acceptable.

If you're looking for a particular type of person, (ie someone who's compatible) that's totally fine. But what's not ok is to allow people to discriminate unfairly. There are plenty of valid reasons for looking for a certain type of person, so use those reasons instead.
 
OldCoals said:
How do you converse with people when you can't speak a common language?
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The common language in India is pretty much English anyway by the way :P

I go to Poland every year at least once and only a couple of people we spend time with can speak any English. At times it can get a little frustrating but 90% of the time it makes very little difference and encourages both sides to learn a little more than they already know.
If in doubt open a bottle of something! Everyone everywhere knows each countries word for 'Cheers' :D
 
div0 said:
I kind of see your point here too. But again, if you had an employer who was intent on only employing white people, then would you see it as acceptable to allow him to advertise as 'white-only', so as to 'save time' for anyone else who may be considering to apply.
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But like I mentioned in a previous post, the workplace is supposed to be a professional environment, completely different to your own home.

Besides, that's why these stupid quotas have been introduced for employers, and the day I'm given a quota for the people I'm forced to allow to live in my home is the day I go postal! :mad:

asim18 said:
But that doesn't mean they hate each other, inside the classroom they get on perfectly, (except the emos, everyone hated them).
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Even themselves!

(someone had to say it!)
 
danielanthony said:
I understand that an Englishman's home is his castle, BUT:

This lack of integration means the sharing of experiences and accumulation of common assumptions that bind communities together does not happen. That alone would be bad enough, but worse, it allows perceptions to go unchallenged. These layer up to create walls of assumption that not only divide communities but create a sufficient level of ‘otherness’ that people can vote BNP because they genuinely believe that the ‘blacks are taking all our houses, the Asians have got all the jobs’. And not all the bricks in these walls were laid by one side. Sweeping generalisations and destructive stereotypes work both ways.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/charlie-baker/is-there-racial-segregation-in-britains-towns

There have been a lot of assumptions made by people in this thread about other cultures or races not wanting to live together. Without even entertaining the possibility of living with someone from a different culture, how can we be expected to live in a more integrated society?
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You can't legislate so that people have to let other members of the public into their private homes to live against their wishes. That would be crazy, even if it was done "for the greater good".

We're not living in a communist society.
 
deuse said:
I lived with an Indian family in coventry a few moons ago and some of them couldn't speak english but I got on fine.
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That's cool, but it's hardly the same as someone wanting to live in a house full of people who don't speak any English and want someone else living there they can talk to, because the rent's cheap and it's round the corner from work.

I lived with a Sri Lankan guy for a bit, some of his mates and his family who visited spoke no English, but then that wasn't a problem because me and he did.

When he advertised, he mentioned nothing about anything other than asking for a vegetarian, non-smoker. Which I was neither at the time, but there you go, I just smoked outside and didn't cook meat in his kitchen. The rent was cheap ;)

Now if he didn't speak any English, or wasn't confident enough with it... and he'd advertised for another Sri Lankan? Would I / should I have felt discriminated against? Would that have made him racist? Essentially he'd be the same nice fella who let me live in his spare room and share his lovely flat for a few months whilst I saved some cash. Just not English speaking.
 
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There are plenty of reasons other than racism to stop them living in your home.

For instance I wouldnt rent my room\flat to a polish family as I think polish food stinks. Not racist, I just cant tolerate the smell of the spicey meats they use, And yes the smell lingers.

In a similar vain I would possibly deny Indian families too, I dont mind indian food, but the spices used will leave a lingering smell.

I don't think I'd be as blunt as advertise for white only people living in my home. But I'd definitely factor in long lasting effects on the home when selecting who lives in my property
 
wannabedamned said:
There are plenty of reasons other than racism to stop them living in your home.

For instance I wouldnt rent my room\flat to a polish family as I think polish food stinks. Not racist, I just cant tolerate the smell of the spicey meats they use, And yes the smell lingers.

In a similar vain I would possibly deny Indian families too, I dont mind indian food, but the spices used will leave a lingering smell.

I don't think I'd be as blunt as advertise for white only people living in my home. But I'd definitely factor in long lasting effects on the home when selecting who lives in my property
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Well, quite, but I don't see what "white only" has to do with it. There are plenty of white Brits I wouldn't rent to, whilst plenty of people of other ethnicities that I would.

Just because someone's of Indian extraction doesn't mean they cook curry any more than I do. If an Indian fella wanted to rent from me and didn't smell like a curry house, I'd think it fairly safe to assume his kitchen didn't. Though I'd feel perfectly comfortable asking him about his eating habits and telling him why if he wanted to know why I'd asked.
 
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