There are several reasons to like and dislike the residential home rental business.
We have enjoyed staying in neighborhoods and meeting locals - lodging prices can be a lot cheaper - eating in is easy and less expensive than restaurants - and relaxing in a private living space inside or out is wonderful.
On the other hand, vacation rentals take valuable housing units off the market when housing is in short supply and extremely expensive due to the lack of inventory. Neighbors and neighborhoods are subjected to a rotating stream of renters who who do not contribute to the long term health and cohesiveness of the community. Some guests come only to party and act in ways they would never act at home - the owner and renters obviously don’t care about the strangers around them - the neighbors who have to put up with a range of problems that come with out of toners. I had already given up on Airbnb. The costs to our quality of life is too great.
Now Airbnb has entered a new realm of things to dislike - being Thought Police. I don’t even know how they can get away with what they are doing - banning patrons who they consider too… American? Free thinkers? I remember when American jurisprudence entered the quicksand of making some crimes “hate crimes.” When the law began to consider not just what the subject DID, but what they THOUGHT before or during the act,
America started down that slippery slope that ends in totalitarian control by a powerful elite who are charged with making a decision about what is or is not a correct thought - or speech. The First amendment is in jeopardy. If someone is able to label speech they don’t like as “hate” speech, it slips into the “hate crime” legal crack and is easily accepted by the public.
Disclaimer: Upsuckercreek has never heard of and does not endorse the group, American Renaissance that is mentioned in the commentary below. The issue here is preservation of free speech, freedom of association, upholding the Civil Rights laws that prohibit public accommodations from discriminating against people for engaging in legal activities, punishing one person for another’s assumed bad actions, and generally being part of the Cancel Culture that is trying to silence and sideline people they do not agree with. Unamericanism.
FIGHT BACK!
Use your voice or lose it!
So here is the grim reality of life in Woke America 2022. In November, I spoke at a peaceful conference held by an organization that is deemed a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League. The title of my talk was "Race, Immigration, and Con. Inc: How I Came to See the Light." It was a wide-ranging discussion of my three decades of reporting on the nation's demographic and cultural deterioration — which I've chronicled firsthand on college campuses, at our borders, and in every crime-ridden, riot-prone, and mass migration-transformed metropolis, from Los Angeles to Seattle and Portland, to Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New York and Denver.
The speech delved into the K-20 metastasis of anti-white curriculum, the corporate media's whitewashing of black-on-Asian attacks, and the long campaign to censor nationalist dissidents who put America first. A week after my talk, San Francisco-based Airbnb notified me that I was banned from using its services ever again and imperiously deleted my account. Poof!
"My name's Cedar, and I'm with Airbnb's Trust team," the Nov. 24, 2021, email began. "It has come to our attention that you were a keynote speaker for the 2021 American Renaissance Conference earlier this month in Tennessee. Airbnb's community policies prohibit people who are members of or actively associate with known hate groups. Due to your promotion and participation in a known white nationalist and white supremacist conference, we have determined that we will remove your account from Airbnb. This is consistent with action we've taken to ban people associated with this conference in past years."
Airbnb's ideological witch hunts have claimed an unknown number of victims since 2016 as part of a woke company initiative to root out "bias" and expel anyone deemed an "extremist" with a "dangerous organization affiliation." Press coverage of previous purges strongly suggests that the aforementioned character assassins of the Southern Poverty Law Center are involved through use of their far left, anti-white, anti-right "Hatewatch" list. Ever since I wrote my first book, "Invasion," in 2002, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League goons have sought to stifle my voice.
The Airbnb bullies also banned my equally nonviolent, nonhateful husband — who did not attend the conference and who is not a public figure or activist.
"As we can see that your Airbnb travels are typically reserved via your husband's account," Airbnb's "Trust team" member "Cedar" told both my husband and me, "We will also proceed in removing his account." Neither of us had ever had a negative review, complaint or policy violation of any kind. Are my kids next? Are yours?
I've received feedback from astute lawyers who note that public accommodation businesses in California, where Airbnb is based, are subject to the Unruh Civil Rights Act — which forbids the very kind of anti-free-speech, anti-free-association and anti-equal housing discrimination Airbnb has visited upon me and my family. Much more is at stake, of course, and there are other sound legal grounds for seeking relief.
Cancel culture has reached a new escalation, and I don't plan on rolling over. Never have. Never will. I've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for other patriots and heroes over the past 30 years. Now, I'm asking readers and viewers for help to fight my own battle — which, of course, is yours as well. Visit fundly.com/michellefightsairbnb to join the cause. It's a time for choosing: Defiance over compliance.
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