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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by djschnei on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:13PM (#12456291)
How as a society do we decide appropriate discrimination vs. inappropriate discrimination? We discriminate constantly, every single of us - making choice of this person over that person. Is that wrong? when does it become wrong? is it not something that can be hashed out?
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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by 6dqh5yapl3 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:16PM (#12456330)
We have had this debate in the US. We determined that that you can discriminate against people for most random reasons, but if you run a public accommodation there are several specific reasons you can't use to discriminate.
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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by djschnei on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:40PM (#12456562)
Those being race, gender, creed, and sexual orientation I suppose? Still seems rather arbitrary, if I'm being honest. Acting for example; how is casting based on race legal? Or maybe it's not... idk. Interesting topic though.
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