[geofft]

> if they evict right wing groups meeting, why don't they do the same to left wing anarchist groups?

They were not evicted for being right-wing; they were evicted for violating the Community Pledge: in order to use the platform, you have to agree to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age."

Plenty of right-wing people can do that just fine. Plenty of left-wing people cannot.

Unite the Right has taken it as a point of doctrine not to "punch right," by which they mean that whether or not they personally believe in rejecting people based on race, sex, religion, cultural origin, etc., they will march with those who do against a perceived "common enemy." This is not common right-wing behavior; in fact the Republican primaries featured serious questions on whether to kill baby Hitler, taking it as granted that killing adult Hitler was a moral imperative. Unite the Right would ally with adult Hitler to win the war against their "common enemy," and then maybe consider rationally debating him later.

The ability to follow the Community Pledge isn't a left/right distinction, and you're misrepresenting the right wing (although probably not the "alt-right") by claiming that it is.

> The true is I believe they should not involve themselves in politics as it never ends good.

Airbnb is inextricably involved in politics because their entire business model is literally illegal in most of the places they operate. The process of convincing politicians to change that is called politics.

[igor_filippov]

I once saw an apartment for rent where host mentioned only vegans are allowed. I wonder if accepting people regardless of their food preference should be part of Community Pledge.

[anonemouse145]

Would they evict the lesbians who've been tossing Jews out of pride parades (which is no joke, it happened in my town)? Or do they evict the Jews?

Shouldn't they evict all Pride March leadership since Black Lives Matter have been stopping Pride parades due to allegations of systematic racism? Or do they evict BLM for stopping Pride parades?

Would they evict the professors of Evergreen who students claim are guilty of systematic oppression? Or do they evict the students who were patrolling campus with baseball bats?

Shouldn't they evict all white men, since all white men are guilty of participating in colonialism and patriarchy? Or do they evict all white men, since white men supposedly got Trump elected (something the statistics very much dispute- Trump made gains in several demographics)?

This is a very slippery slope in these times.

If the leaders of AirBnB were the white nationalists, and they were tossing out their opponents following white nationalist policy, everyone would say the white nationalists deserve harsh retribution.

The policy itself doesn't matter. The politics do. And yes, AurBnB has to play politics. I'd wager they saw a couple markets where they hope to keep a foothold for being "the good guys" instead of an illegal business in violation of various local ordinances on innkeeping.

[tptacek]

This is really just an attempt to inject Twitter drama into the discussion. Obviously, it is not a common position among lesbians to eject people from their parades for carrying Jewish pride flags† --- one way you know that is it was a lesbian who was ejected from the parade.

You're criticizing one small LGBT subgroup, but misrepresenting them as the whole LGBT community. Which in the context of this discussion is just an attempt to muddy the water. Please don't do that.

(that, by the way, is what got them ejected --- being perceived as vocally pro-Israel --- not "for being Jewish". Plenty of Jewish people are anti-Israel.)

[bolololo12]

> in fact the Republican primaries featured serious questions on whether to kill baby Hitler, taking it as granted that killing adult Hitler was a moral imperative.

It's not worth to take part in such worthless philosophical debates in my opinion. They do not add anything to the society or solve any important modern day problems.

> their entire business model is literally illegal in most of the places they operate.

If that's true their website should be shut down in countries where it's banned.

[geofft]

> It's not worth to take part in such worthless philosophical debates in my opinion. They do not add anything to the society or solve any important modern day problems.

I agree, but I was not defending these debates, just giving evidence for my claim that a common position in the mainstream right wing is that Hitler is worth fighting.

> If that's true their website should be shut down in countries where it's banned.

I agree with this too, but law enforcement is not always effective at stopping well-funded companies blitzing through regulations (VCs call this phenomenon "disruption").