Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts

Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by tedmiston on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:04PM (#12455467)

I've always considered it a legitimate request when people want to live with others of the same gender for a shared room in their home.

For example, you especially see this on sites like Craigslist when people are seeking roommates. This policy seems to overturn the ability of hosts to do this. If I were a female in an all female home renting out one room, it would make me uncomfortable. Perhaps other do not see this as an issue in short-term renting, but I do.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by tedmiston on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:58AM (#12488823)

Update: My assumption is incorrect. Airbnb has added a policy specifically to permit this use case -- see "Gender" section.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrim...

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by 6dqh5yapl3 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:24PM (#12456405)

I don't see any basis for what you are talking about anywhere in AirBNB's policy: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1405/airbnb-s-nondiscrim...

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by ritchiea on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:17PM (#12456343)

Have you considered the fact that whites discriminating against blacks is commonplace in the United States (as well as many other countries) while accounts of whites feeling discriminated against by people of color is much more rare?

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by oh_sigh on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:44PM (#12456599)

Which makes sense, because whites constitute 60+% whereas blacks constitute 13%. Even if everything in the world was exactly equal, including percent of racist whites and blacks, blacks(or really, the group with fewer members) would experience more racism because of the disparity in population numbers.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:44PM (#12457124)

Plenty of dudes are convinced that society is "anti-male", you can get some examples in the "Ask a Female Engineer" thread currently going on.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by ebfe on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:57PM (#12457725)

Right. I have no idea whether it's a majority like it is with whites, but I would also disagree with a claim that very few men feel discriminated against.

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