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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 Monday November 04 2019, @05:08AM (4 children)
Have you noticed as society has become more obsequious and apologetic towards broken black culture, that the culture has only gotten exponentially worse? This should generally clue in that your hypothesis is invalid.
Beyond that I think another great lesson, which also ties right back into America, is Liberia. Liberia is a beautiful and resource rich nation. It's coastal with with rich, lush, forests and a wide array of similarly rich mineral resources. It also mimics the US in a great number of ways. For instance both their flag, constitution, and political system all borrow heavily from the US. The reason is that Liberia was the result of activists alongside a motley crew of allies (including former slave owners) after the end of slavery in the US. They felt similarly to you - that blacks would likely suffer from discrimination and other issues in the US. And so they looked to give them the ultimate gift - literally, their own country free of discrimination, bias, or anything like that.
And Liberia was not a country ruled by proxy or by any sort of remote influence. The first president of Liberia was Joseph Jenkins Robert [wikipedia.org], a child of freed slaves from the US. And indeed from his presidency in 1847 until 1980 the country would be ruled entirely by blacks who descended from freed US slaves. Regardless, the thing you may know is that Liberia is a failed state. In spite of being a lush and bountiful nation, food security is extremely low. In spite of having vast mineral and material resources to build upon, the nation is remains mostly undeveloped and extremely poor. The GDP/capita is $704. It's only sustained itself by taking loans and aid, never to be repaid, from other nations. Many of whom have nothing like its resources.
Suffice to say your hypothesis is not really based upon anything other than hand waving. Beyond this I would also emphasize that respect is earned, not given. Do you respect white trailer trash? Obviously not, even though I'm sure there are some great people there. Yet similarly of course Neil deGrasse Tyson (who incidentally is only half black), Morgan Freeman, and others have gained wide adulation and respect. If somebody is going to talk like an idiot and act like an idiot, then they deserve to be treated exactly as they are - an idiot. Respecting stupidity doesn't fix stupidity, it normalizes it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:14AM (3 children)
No. In fact, we've *never* (and didn't start) been the former, and the latter is completely untrue.
The issues we have are a result of (purposely) disadvantaging those with more melanin content.
When you can show me real equality of *opportunity* (not outcome, opportunity) over a reasonable period of time, you might get some traction with that spew.
Until then, you're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:58AM (2 children)
So what do you want to see? How about we remove the people from any sort of potential discrimination or bias, give them their own extremely rich country, set them up as the sovereign and exclusive leaders, ply them with billions of dollars in aid, and let it run for a couple of centuries? This is not equality of opportunity - it's something far greater. And this is, again, literally what Liberia is. Had it been a success people would be using it, far and wide, as an example of how crushing the alleged social factors you'd like to allude to have been, and I'd have been one of them! But it hasn't been a success - it's been a complete disaster.
What more could you possibly want than giving people tens of thousands of acres of lush land, complete and absolute self governance and sovereignty, billions of dollars, and then letting it run for a couple of centuries?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
Liberia was just one of many failed attempts to get rid of the darkies [wikipedia.org].
That's not equality of opportunity. That's just another way to discriminate against other humans for no good reason.
There's plenty of institutional and individual (like yours) bigotry still in this country. And you're part of the problem.
Stop demonizing my fellow Americans just for the melanin content in their skin. It just shows you to be bigoted, ignorant and closed minded.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @03:44AM
So let me get this straight. Giving people tens of thousands of acres of lush land, complete and absolute self governance and sovereignty, billions of dollars, and then persisting this for centuries... is discrimination?
Oh boy. I've always been extremely liberal. I voted for Obama in 2008. But man, I have no idea what happened to liberalism in the US. Stuff like this is pushing me closer to being another orange man vote. Probably why he's up in the polls following the decision to go for impeachment.