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Airbnb will no longer allow people to rent out houses where enslaved people formerly lived or worked, according to the company's new anti-discrimination policy.
The platform's policy, which provided an update on its "Work to fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion," follows backlash Airbnb received in July over a "1830s slave cabin" listing that went viral on TikTok.
In a section labeled "Prohibiting the Glorification and Marketing of Slavery," the company states that in July 2022 it "took a series of steps to address the listing of properties in the US that were known to include former slave houses" which "have no place on Airbnb."

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Using Airbnb logic, will "Airbnb" ban any and all listings, that has a home on land once belonging to Native Americans. Its only right, that Airbnb does this. Other wise... they are hypocrites and should be boycotted.
Go woke go broke.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/airbnb-bans-listings-enslaved-people-live-work

Airbnb's offices are probably on land once owned by native americans.

So lots of Manhattan airbnbs will be off limits, right? People were enslaved there. How about Charleston, Atlanta, Virginia? Dc should be mostly off-limits. Anything in Arlington, too.

Morons.

We're talking about buildings that existed prior to January 1, 1863?

I assume AirBNB doesn't operate in Cuba?

Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians, receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

Idiots run these businesses, and they always cave to the idiotic demands of a tiny loud group of activists that threatens them, either internal or external.

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Airbnb will no longer allow people to rent out houses where enslaved people formerly lived or worked, according to the company's new anti-discrimination policy.
The platform's policy, which provided an update on its "Work to fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion," follows backlash Airbnb received in July over a "1830s slave cabin" listing that went viral on TikTok.
In a section labeled "Prohibiting the Glorification and Marketing of Slavery," the company states that in July 2022 it "took a series of steps to address the listing of properties in the US that were known to include former slave houses" which "have no place on Airbnb."

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Using Airbnb logic, will "Airbnb" ban any and all listings, that has a home on land once belonging to Native Americans. Its only right, that Airbnb does this. Other wise... they are hypocrites and should be boycotted.
Go woke go broke.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/airbnb-bans-listings-enslaved-people-live-work

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Just another example of extremists cranking the f'tard to 11

Martin Q. Blank said:

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We're talking about buildings that existed prior to January 1, 1863?

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December 1865 for Kentucky and Delaware.

1866 for slaves held by the "five civilized tribes"

fka ftc said:

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My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians, receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

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Christians? Reparations? Which Egyptians?

The ones where Joseph and Mary went to w/o any trouble before JC was born?

Because the other Egyptians enslaved who became the Israelites after 40 years of wondering the desert, no?

This will really stick it to dead slave owners!

fka ftc said:

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My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians, receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

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Which ancient wonders did Christians build in Egypt?

fka ftc said:

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My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians Jews receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

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FIFY

So am I understanding correctly, that as long as you don't put in your listing "This was an old slave house", then everything is A-OK?

Or does Airbnb purport to have some sort of "blacklist" (is that a racist term now, too?) of properties that they know were once slave quarters?

Like most things, this seems like a solution search of a problem as well as a restriction that is easily worked around by simply modifying your listing.

Finally, how many properties does this even apply to? I'm guessing since they are making a big deal about it, there were probably less than 10 properties that had "Sleep like a slave" in the listing.

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Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

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I think so. I've never seen an Airbnb listing for land.

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So am I understanding correctly, that as long as you don't put in your listing "This was an old slave house", then everything is A-OK?

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And no master bedroom.

In Savannah the term is "carriage house"

What about paying illegal mexicans pennies on the dollar for all of the yard work? That's still cool, right?

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fka ftc said:

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My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians, receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

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Which ancient wonders did Christians build in Egypt?

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Many temples and roads before Moses gave them the holy finger and took his people elsewhere.

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fka ftc said:

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My son is becoming a huge fan of ancient Egypt. But I have told him until we, as Christians, receive reparations from the Egyptian peoples then we cannot visit.

It would be against our religion and our cultural heritage to visit a land where our people were oppressed for years and years, often to construct the same wonders we would visit.

You have to be principled. Kudos to Airbnb.

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Christians? Reparations? Which Egyptians?

The ones where Joseph and Mary went to w/o any trouble before JC was born?

Because the other Egyptians enslaved who became the Israelites after 40 years of wondering the desert, no?

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Current day Egyptians. They call themselves Egyptians now so they must pay for the sins of all Egyptians since the beginning of time.

If you calculate the value of the ancient wonders and the economic contribution of the fields and markets worked by Moses, then a couple thousand years of interest, the mental anguish from the 40 years of wondering as you mention.

Its a lot and those MFers better pay.

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Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

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I think so. I've never seen an Airbnb listing for land.

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Oh they are out there. Look for primitive camping spots. I think I'll have my mother, who LOVE genealogy AND proving how idiotic woke is, start looking up the founders and board members family tree.

Karma is such a ***** I bet they all have slave owner fam.

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So am I understanding correctly, that as long as you don't put in your listing "This was an old slave house", then everything is A-OK?

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Or just get one of of those 'Live, Laugh, Love, This Was A Slave House' signs from Pier 1

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combat wombat said:

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Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

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I think so. I've never seen an Airbnb listing for land.

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There could be, conceivably, an Airbnb on a property that was once a plantation, for example. Perhaps the actual building that's being rented out, was never a building in which slaves might have been quartered or enslaved, but it's on land on which enslaved people lived and worked.

So, VRBO?

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So am I understanding correctly, that as long as you don't put in your listing "This was an old slave house", then everything is A-OK?

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And no master bedroom.

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Why?

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combat wombat said:

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Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

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I think so. I've never seen an Airbnb listing for land.

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There could be, conceivably, an Airbnb on a property that was once a plantation, for example. Perhaps the actual building that's being rented out, was never a building in which slaves might have been quartered or enslaved, but it's on land on which enslaved people lived and worked.

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I cannot think of a single room much less a building in which a slave would not have worked in at an actual plantation, even if just to clean it, change the sheets, etc.

If you are on an actual plantation, every inch would have been touched by a slave even if to pull weeds.

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Martin Q. Blank said:

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So am I understanding correctly, that as long as you don't put in your listing "This was an old slave house", then everything is A-OK?

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I always thought "owner's suite" was twice as racist as "master bedroom".

It actually is, but we had one city, a long time ago, complain about "master" so now we refer to the as "Owner's Suite" or "Owner's Bath"... Just shows their ignorance of the origin of the word.

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combat wombat said:

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combat wombat said:

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Oh, so it's just the building… not the land?

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I think so. I've never seen an Airbnb listing for land.

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There could be, conceivably, an Airbnb on a property that was once a plantation, for example. Perhaps the actual building that's being rented out, was never a building in which slaves might have been quartered or enslaved, but it's on land on which enslaved people lived and worked.

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I cannot think of a single room much less a building in which a slave would not have worked in at an actual plantation, even if just to clean it, change the sheets, etc.

If you are on an actual plantation, every inch would have been touched by a slave even if to pull weeds.

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These people are morons. How about land that used to be but is no longer a plantation? How about a brownstone in NYC in which someone was enslaved?

I understand not advertising as such, but to refuse any rental of said properties in absurd.

Is this only in white countries?
You can rent places in Cuba still.
Same with Dominica, Jamaica, Martinique, etc on the sites of former plantations.

I work in the industry (not for Airbnb specifically) and can 100% say that this is mostly being driven by customer feedback. I have no doubts that they have been seeing this come up more and more in customer feedback and insights about concerns in regards to featuring plantation-style properties in their inventory that were once very popular to rent out for larger events like weddings, company functions, etc. Airbnb is probably jumping on the general trend and trying to get ahead of things for marketing purposes in order to claim that they have a moral take on it.

More than likely companies like this will just change the hero images on the listings and lower their search order, but keep the bulk of the inventory unless something is featured on the property that blatantly racist like certain flags or other artwork (which does happen).

Back in the day, many a white chick in the southeast had a wedding at a plantation.

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Back in the day, many a white chick in the southeast had a wedding at a plantation.

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By back in the day you mean like every weekend in the Deep South?