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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after five die in Halloween shooting
Airbnb has said it will ban "party houses" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.
CEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps to "combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct". "We must do better, and we will. This is unacceptable," Mr Chesky added.
Three people died at the house, in the city of Orinda, near San Francisco, and two more died later in hospital. The house was reportedly booked under a pretence for a small group, before being publicised on Instagram as the venue for a Halloween party which eventually drew a crowd of more than 100 people. The host did not authorise the party, Airbnb said.
[...] Mr Chesky said Airbnb would create a dedicated "party house" rapid response team and expand manual screening of high-risk reservations. The company, which is expected to float on the stock market in 2020, would also take action against users who violated its policies, he said.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @09:18PM (1 child)
I doubt many "African Americans" have had any contact with African culture since their ancestors were sold across the ocean 250 years ago. I don't think the issue is genetic, because similar underclasses form in other societies.
I believe the problem has two mutually reinforcing angles: One is that majority culture in this country either despises them for being formerly enslaved or because of the daily stories out of the inner city. Majority culture would rather they just disappeared and are busy importing replacement citizens from south of the border who show more aptitude for overcoming adversity and working their way up in society.
The other is that, likely because of the exclusion from majority culture, the raising of black children has been neglected. People getting shot at a party or a zoo or wherever because someone got "dissed" is indicative that cause, effect and consequence just isn't being communicated. They are left to act on their urges, and majority culture couldn't care less, as long as whites don't get hurt.
The goal is to break out of the ghetto and make the big bucks, and many think the way to that is to become a drug gang member. But most of them will just be soldiers shooting others and getting shot at. Legal options to make it in society are limited, because of the (racist and idiotic) disdain for "white" traits of diligence and industry. So if not drugs, then you try other hustles at constant risk of hassle by the police, like on-street car repair or organizing a drinking party at somebody's house you rented from Airbnb. Definitely not something lazy people would do, it's quite entrepreneurial. But the lobsters trying to crawl out get pulled back by the others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:35AM
To be clear in my above post (that you responded to), I made an unfortunate typo. I was stating that places such as Burkina Faso or Benin (both in West Africa) have homicide rates, at least, there are somewhat comparable to Europe. So this was some evidence against a genetic cause. And yes of course when I talk about culture, I am not talking about African culture but black American culture. African American is such a stupid phrase anyhow. Blacks in America today have about as much connection to Africa as whites do to Europe.
The problem is that in an increasingly global and connected world, this culture is no longer limited by borders. I do not think Africa will be adopting it any time soon because lack the development to create the requisite consumerism, but we do see the emergence of the 'urban culture' in places like England as well. And indeed as England becomes more diverse and gets to experience the effects of this culture first hand, it's now facing the exact same issues it once was able to smugly mock America over. Now we get to make fun of them first banning guns, then knives, and now even trying to ban any knives from having 'pointy ends' and including things like knife crime notices on fried chicken boxes. Who's laughing now, England? ;-)