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by anonemouse145 3234 days ago
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.

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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.)