There is an interesting controversy growing over an alleged eviction by an Airbnb host in Philadelphia of Trump supporters. The conservative site Breitbart is reporting that “ballot chasers” for Trump were allegedly given an hour to clear out after the host learned that they were in Pennsylvania to get out the vote for Trump. If true, the incident raises a serious matter for Airbnb over hosts imposing political conditions for the use of their property.
Once again, we have not heard the other side to this controversy. However, if these allegations are established, it raises a variation of an issue that has been discussed for years on this blog: the role of private companies or businesses in censoring speech or blacklisting individuals.
First for the obvious threshold point. Private property owners have a right to exclude people from their property on any number of issues. This homeowner is likely to be lionized by many who agree with the decision. If an owner wants to run their home like an Airdnc, they have every right to do so. The question is whether they can do so as an Airbnb.
It is worth noting that many of the same individuals supporting this owner likely opposed the right of business owners in cases like Masterpiece Cake Shop and 303 Creative. In those cases, the owners refused to make products for celebrations that conflicted with their religious views.
I have previously written why businesses should have the right of such denial as a matter of free speech, including in my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
In this case, an owner is accused of refusing service or rentals based on political grounds.
The question is not whether this owner has the right of exclusion in a home, but whether Airbnb is now allowing such threshold political tests to be applied by owners. It would create an uncertainty for guests who would not know if they may be tossed to the street if they reveal their political viewpoints or affiliations.
The incident could be a type of micro-cancel problem. We have seen universities and colleges cancel conservative and libertarian speakers under pressure from faculty and students who cannot tolerate opposing views from being spoken on campuses.
Citizens Alliance’s PA CHASE says that it is still pursuing a requested $5,000 refund.
Airbnb notes in its contractual language that
“Guest identity verification, reservation screening and the 24-hour safety line are tools or features used by Airbnb to help verify guest identities, screen reservations for potential party and property damage risk, and provide access to Airbnb’s 24-hour safety line.”
There is no indication that the group was planning large gatherings at the location. However, it could be cited by the owner.
If the group is mistaken or misrepresenting the facts, Airbnb should make that clear. It should also make clear what its policy is on possible political conditions for Airbnb listings. One possibility is that the owner will argue that he or she did not want the property used for a high-traffic political effort operating out of the home. A homeowner could reasonably demand that the property not be used for large parties or high-traffic enterprises.
Conversely, Citizens Alliance is suggesting that they were simply planning to stay at the home. Moreover, other guests have likely held parties on rented premises without such alleged peremptory action. Notably, Airbnb promises homeowners up to $3 million in insurance for any damage to property.
Airbnb has a strong anti-discrimination policy on race but is silent on political viewpoints.
If the host barred Trump supporters due simply to their political affiliations or the purpose of their visit, it would seem inimical to the business model of the company. However, there are difficult hypotheticals on the extremes.
For example, what if an owner came to hand over the keys only to find guests wearing KKK or neo-Nazi outfits? What if a pro-life owner learned that the home would be used at the base camp for a pro-abortion campaign? Do they have the right to decline service like a cake shop or web designer?
The difference may be based on the use of the property. Airbnb operates like an aggregated hotel chain using private owners to supply the rooms. Just as Hyatt cannot impose political litmus tests, it is unworkable to allow such a test by individual owners and still maintain a viable national chain.
If this owner was in compliance with Airbnb contractual conditions, the site should make that clear to renters. At a minimum, Airbnb would have to require owners to state upfront any threshold political conditions. That would be a nightmare for the company since the site would turn into a patchwork of threshold exclusions. That would destroy the premise of the site which treats the room stock as uniformly available and only differentiated on physical layout and pricing.
Notably, in cases like Masterpiece Cake Shop, the owner insisted that he would sell pre-made cakes to anyone who wanted to buy them. He only objected to preparing special cakes for ceremonies that contradicted his religious views.
In the same way, Airbnb could make clear that, so long as the property itself will not be used for political or advocacy activities, owners are expected to adopt a non-discriminatory policy on political viewpoints. The cost of renting out your home to strangers is that you will likely disagree with the values of many of the renters.
Airbnb is reportedly still looking at the refund request.
My husband, who is a foreigner, wondered how it is possible that a citizen’s personal identification or driver’s license must state his political preference as public information, when the premise is that the vote is secret.
If someone could clarify or inform me of the reason, I would be grateful.
Airbnb is a joke. Our neighbor had an airbnb. Rules stated no parties, no groups larger than 9. They had a college frat party. Filled the yard with cars. Drinking and smoking in the front yard. Sheriff showed up. Told the homeowner it was a civil issue. Sheriff could not throw them out since they had a contract. Airbnb said she could not throw them out, they had a contract. There was a car accident in the yard, gun shots were fired. Damage in the $1000’s. Airbnb did NOT reimburse her for the damages. She sold the home not long after. The party made the news and an X list of horrific Airbnb stories. So the fact that they could just throw these people out is a shock to me. Either the company has rules or it doesn’t.
Here is the story I wrote about it. https://smalltownnewsnikki.substack.com/p/students-trash-airbnb Lots of photos.
Like it or not. ANY business, ANY where is considered to be “private property”, and ARE allowed to 86 anyone, on ANY basis. I have worked in many retail stores, and that is the law we used to kick someone out of our store, when they did something inappropriate. Just have to call the Sheriff, and have them “trespassed”. I’m sure that goes double for someone staying in you own home.
There are public accommodation laws that prohibit discrimination on racial, religious, sex and certain other grounds. So far, not political grounds, but if democrats start getting kicked out of places, you can bet that is coming.
It has happened in the past when Trump was President and the Democrats pushed for their supporters to harass Trump and his cabinet members while they were out at restaurants. Some restaurants would not serve them and one ended up closing due to lack of business in Virginia as people shunned it.
Your home? Or, your business? They are quite different. As a business, public accommodation comes into play. Can I as a business owner suspend someone’s freedom of speech? Maybe yes, and maybe no. But, can I suspend someone’s freedom of religion; to wit their belief/beliefs? Can I refuse to serve a Muslim? TRY IT!
Politics is a gray area somewhat in between, but supporting a political ban opens the door – as the article points -out to refusing service to sexual identity, sexual preferences, advocates of these practices, pronoun preferences, hair color, and on, and on. It opens the door to boycotts, slanders (in order to sue, home renters will have to retain paid attorneys as they are business entities), nuisance lawsuits, whisper campaigns.
Think this one through – the stakes are very high. The Left always loves a new social weapon until it gets turned against them. For ex, the Supreme Court was the Democrats legislative darling for many decades, getting laws “enacted” by fiat. Now that it is conservative, it is the Devil’s spawn. Political tests could easily collapse a growing industry; it will only add to the social strife we are experiencing.
S. Reade
Its larger then you think, the company is anti-trump, an investigation should take place
November 13th 2020 (Million Maga March)
Airbnb cancels reservation, Airbnb is a third-party wholesaler, who committed tortuous interfere with contracts/customers if a credit card was taken and a deposit was taken at the time of reservation it’s a contract. At this point the third party has been removed from deal.
https://www.newsweek.com/airbnb-million-maga-march-washington-proud-boys-1547209
November 16th 2020
Airbnb files paperwork for Airbnb to go public with the SEC
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1559720/000119312520294801/d81668ds1.htm
December 10th 2020
Airbnb public offering
cnbc.com/2020/12/10/airbnb-ipo-abnb-starts-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html
December 17th 2020
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky sell stock in Airbnb somehow avoiding the 6 months lock up rule
forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/12/10/thanks-to-ipo-pop-airbnbs-three-billionaire-cofounders-more-than-double-their-net-worths-in-a-single-day/
wish I could get the complete history of Brian Chesky, he is selling a lot of stock
gurufocus.com/insider/173818/brian-chesky#history
Where is the SEC ?
Well, that would be Melissa Hodgman-Strzok’s the wife of the infamous FBI agent in charge of crossfire hurricane Peter Strzok remember his “insurance policy”
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021-15
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016-217
rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?3109267-Peter-Strzok-s-insurance-policy-is-his-wife-SEC-Director-Melissa-Hodgman-who-has
Trump Media & Technology Group,
Now compare all to what is going on with Trump
finance.yahoo.com/news/shares-trumps-media-firm-sink-173028588.html
news.crunchbase.com/public/the-market-minute-early-lockup-releases/
Airbnb 100% left leaning company
I just cancelled my AIRBnB account. I didn’t use it very much anyway.
The ONLY thing that will heal our Nation is to hold accountable the people that have brought us to where we stand today. No one is above the law, remember? Enough is enough.
* Fabulous case! Voting rights! It’s not only political affiliation. It’s also the activity of registering citizens to vote. All kinds of amendments involved.
Thanks for the post.
* sounds like a really bad AI loop. It plays over and over like a tape recorded message on a loop in a room with only the recorder. Call the police always to get the facts, mam. Just the facts…
IF these folks did not destroy any property or disturb the neighbors in some overt way, they need to get a FULL REFUND since they were kicked out… IT IS NORMAL for people to rent homes and have small or large gatherings there… UNLESS the owner makes it clear up from that this cannot be the case… ERGO.. AIRBNB and the owner need to issue a FULL REFUND…….. and as for the rest… it’s a complete cluster&**$&…
It ain’t the border, it ain’t the guns, it ain’t the lgbtqwhateveryacallits, … it ain’t none of that.
Say what you want but there’s absolutely no reason for us to be on the precipice of global thermonuclear war, wish Russia. NONE. And NO ONE WANTS IT. Except those in suits.
When President Trump was in office we enjoyed heightened friendship with Russia He even had sit downs with Mr Putin and enjoyed a mutually respective relationship. Like Nixon in China, Trump knew how to talk to the Russian, and how to treat your enemies with the proper respect. The fact is when President Trump left office we were enjoying heightened relations with Russia.
Under Biden we enjoyed heightened defense condition. Putin’s trimming missiles in the silos and our military’s on high alert. Putin FIRED on vessels off the shores of Alaska this week. He announced in no uncertain terms how he would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons should we be foolish enough to allow Zelinsky to fire on Moscow and ignite World War III.
So while Trump might have more rough edges than a used car salesman in a checkered sportcoat, the attacks on him have done nothing but help polish off some of those rough edges and are turning him into quite the statesman
The fact is when it comes to international diplomacy and keeping us out of war, Donald Trumps Solomon, and Joe Bidens Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove.
I’ll go with the guy who stops wars, not starts them.
And I’m not talking about his political enemies. He still has a lot of work to do on that. But how he treats our nations military enemies, … he gets that. Biden doesn’t. All Biden does is insult and provoke Putin. Trump sits down and talks to him> And that’s the first and most important quality of the leader of a nuclear superpower. Anything else is insanity.
Trump works the deal. Biden works his mouth.
‘Chris Weber’ ‘HEAR HEAR’ to Both of your posts…. AMZING PARADOX, isn’t it that the man who allegedly is brash with rough edges (and an assortment of other fake claims by the MSM and Politicians who are scared to death of him because he has seen through their BS, which includes Milking their public service positions for $Millions & $Billions under the table) is the Undisputed DIPLOMAT here… and the only real Presidential acting candidate on this and other levels…..
Absolutely, a baker doesn’t have to make a cake for LGBTQ+IA persons, and AirBnB hosts don’t have to cater to racists pimping for a rapist, seems fair to me
Ignoring the stupid and false racist nonsense, you are otherwise correct.
I think Turley is making too big a deal of this story – it is self correcting.
People renting their house through AirBnb are answerable to AirBnb for their “policies”,
AirBnb is answerable to shareholders.
Shareholders expect profits. There are only a few niche businesses where descriminating politically is a good idea.
AirBnb is not in one of those businesses.
I expect that as this has been made public – AirBnb shareholders will send the message to AirBnb managment to focus on making money – not politics.
The management will tell people renting their home through AirBnb that it is not acceptable to even ask quests about politics.
Those renting their homes will have to decide whether to continue with AirBnb.
MasterCake chose to forego profits and endure boycotts and lawsuits for his beleifs.
Maybe as a small business those buying from him BECAUSE of his views made up for those who left him over those views.
I think that is unlikely.
Regardless as individuals we should all get to decide who we hire, who we rent to, who we rent from, who we work for, who we buy from who we sell to. We should be free to do so on any basis we want. And if we do so for reasons that most do not accept – we should expect to have harmed ourselves fiscally for our choices.
Sure we should but the real world doesn’t work like that. One side forces you.
Chris Weber,
I agree. Playing WWIII, nuclear chicken is a dangerous idea.
Of all the comments responding to mine yours is the only one that actually addresses the point.
I don’t think folks realize how close we are.
The war in the Ukraine isn’t hard to comprehend. Putin made it clear from day one that the reason he went to the border in the first place was the talk of letting the Ukraine join NATO. Putin made it clear in no uncertain terms he was not having NATO missiles stationed in the Ukraine pointing at Moscow. He wasn’t having it. Period.
Just like JFK wasn’t having Russian missiles stationed in Cuba pointed at DC. He wasn’t having it.
Neither is Putin.
There’s no other deals to be made here. And there is no “surrender” of Russian on this coming soon. Russia will nto budge. They will NOT allow Merkel, Macron and Biden to install their ICBM’s on Ukrainian soil just miles from the Russian border. It’s not happening. And if it does, they’re ready to light the match.
They’re ready to light it all up.
So folks need to wake the heck up and stop responding to the fodder beign tossed out constantly for the masses to feed on.
LGBTQ nonsense, immigration, … abortion…. all distractions. The REAL issue is are we going to let the Biden administration continue to drag us into Nuclear war with Russia and China, or are we going to say enough, and demand our leaders end this incessant provocation of Russia since the Biden administration took over?
When Trump left office Trump and Putin were quiet friendly. Trump played the diplomat and even worked to lessen tensions with North Korea. WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THAT FOR A PRESIDENT TO DO?
THOSE are the things a President is supposed to be doing. Securing international peace and security, not antagonizing armed nuclear superpowers to take us from a pleasant sit-down relationship with Russia to the brink of Nuclear war, which is ALL Joe Biden has done.
I have been praying long and hard over my decision on who to support, and I feel comfortable now with my decision to support President Trump because he made it clear on Friday that he was NOT going to continue this cash pipeline to the Ukraine to keep the weapons sales and war going, and that it was time to end it.
That’s what he said, and no matter how hard that weasel Zelensky tried to trick Trump into agreeing with his war chant, Trump wasn’t having it. He was a ROCK that Zelensky just ran into.
Trump will end the war, and that’s the most important thing on our plate right now.
Nothing is more important than that.
“Even the LameStream Media is mocking Comrade Kamala Harris for her pathetic attempt yesterday to justify her HORRIBLE performance at the Border,” he wrote without providing any evidence before continuing, “14,000 CONVICTED thugs and slimeballs who have committed MURDER have been allowed to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, and roam free to KILL AGAIN…And they will kill again, over and over, and wreak havoc like never seen before. We don’t know anything about them.”
Some of those 14,000 criminals came across the border when Trump was President. Is Trump calling himself HORRIBLE and pathetic?
“Some of those 14,000 criminals came across the border when Trump was President. Is Trump calling himself HORRIBLE and pathetic?”
Is another Democrat moron so horribly pathetic that they didn’t figure out the ones being counted by Biden’s Homeland Security were the ones that came in while Biden was present – not the ones who came in BEFORE Biden was president?
Yes, we do have yet another Democrat moron.
Some here have said that the owners of the airbnbs have a right to not rent to Republicans. Would they say that the same discrimination would be their right if the renters were black. A good plan would be for a Black Republican to try to rent an airbnb. Bring on the Lawfare. Bring on the Lawfare. I can hear the distinct sound of a pucker coming from the airbnb landlords. Make me laughing out loud.
Only the owner of private property has the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over his property.
Only the owner has the right to claim and exercise the discrimination to determine who is trespassing and who is not.
No legislation that denies the right of the owner to “claim and exercise” dominion over his private property is constitutional.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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The 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers—subject to being “taken”—and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification and allowing
ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over his private property.
TiT – you should not have to rent to a republican, or a black person, or a woman, or a gay person.
All of us should be free to choose or not in all our transactions. We should always be able to say no to renting a property,
to buying a burger, to hiring someone, to working for someone, ….
And we should be free to make that choice for any reason we wish.
And the consequences of our choices fall on us.
It is likely that AirBnb shareholders will tell AirBnb management this is not acceptable – because it is doubly likely to cost them money and gain unwanted attention.
AirBnb management will tell propery owners to stay our of politics if they wish to rent through AirBnb.
They can choose what they want to do.
AirBnb is also free to as a policy not rent to republicans, or blacks or women or …
And each of us as part of the free market chan choose if we wish to do business with AirBnb.
These things correct themselves so long as government stays out of it.
Well no shit. I would not let a group of pedophiles, or KKK, or Nazis stay in an AirBnB that I owned, so of course I would not let MAGAs stay there. I would not even give them an hour to get out.
^ Drunk DNC troll. Ignore. ^^
Ripley’s believe it or not, Worlds Largest Azzhole.
Who wants porn in kids libraries?
Who wants child transexual mutilation for prepubescent children?
Who divided our Society by race?
Who has weaponized government, curtailed free speech, opened borders to criminal immigrants?
Are those MAGA ideals? You need to get slapped sober!
Anonymous, I can remember when you defended the books about sex between ten year boys being in school libraries in Florida. After defending pedophilia you now equate Maga people with pedophiles. My recommendation would be to sober up before you make any more comments.
Yes it’s pretty ironic coming from the people who brought us men in women’s sports, locker rooms, and prisons; tampons in boys’ rooms; drag queen story hours for kindergartners; and ballooning child sex trafficking through an open and lawless border.
” I would not even give them an hour to get out.”
I would love it if you did that to me, breaking a valid contract. I would sue your A$$ and take your home. The next thing, you would be renting your home from me.
Stupidity feels grand for the moment, but the pleasure in the long term goes to the smart ones.
Idiot the KKK is and always has been an arm of the Democrat party.
Anonymous is name-calling, accusing MAGA’s of being KKK and pedos. Argumentum ad hominem. Stuff third-graders do on the playground. It’s what people resort to when they have no ability to argue through reason.
And another thing- The KKK was the militant wing of the Democrat Party. And it is Democrats who put how-to porn books in elementary schools, and support Drag Queen Story Time. Those are facts.
ATS, I rent real apartment. I do more background checking than AirBnb.
My application does not ask
Are you a pedophile, member of the KKK or Nazi.
While I will get rid of any tenant who brings unwanted attention to me or my property so long as tenants do NOT bring unwanted attantion,
so long as they do not damage my property, I do not care what they do privately in their own apartments.
It is not my job to check for pedophiles, KKK members, Nazi’s, Blacks or women.
ATS – you do understand that Everyone will end up living somewhere.
The RIGHT lead a movement to seriously constraint where convicted sex offenders could live.
Based on the various laws passed – you had to be distant from schools, churches, day care, …..
There was no place in my city that a convicted sex offender could live – even outside the city – there were few places that were not out in the middle of fields and woods – places where there were actual homes or apartments where sex offenders could live.
If what you want is to drive all those you do not like into being homeless trolls living in tents under bridges – follow what the right did regarding sex offenders.
425,431 convicted criminals that have crossed the border. Buttt buttt buttt there were 51 intelligence agency who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Don’t you know that you need to get your priorities straight. Buttt buttt buttt Russia is more dangerous than 425,431 criminals who now reside in a neighborhood near you according to the Biden DOJ. Don’t forget. Kamala’s got it all under control.
A merger of government and corporations is termed fascism. Years ago, in trying to rent HQs for a citizens initiative, we were met with the same resistance by the cabal of business rental agents. Much of this emerges from insurance corporations, who avoid any possible risk, with the real result of shutting down an active citizenry who are performing their duty of gov’t oversight and participation, doesn’t matter of what ideology or perspective.
This atrocity is what Kamala Harris, our Democrat VP, released on your families and mine. I’m a family man, are you?
“The letter, released on Friday, states that there are 13,099 non-detained non-citizens with murder convictions, 15,811 with sexual offense convictions and 425,431 convicted criminals.
There are 222,141 total non-detained non-citizens with pending criminal charges. Of that total, there are 1,845 with homicide charges and 4,250 with pending sexual assault charges.”
Vote Trump. I want my family safe.
OK, above, I was selfish concerning myself only with my family. I apologize. I want all families and people safe, including immigrant children being abused because of VP Harris’ policy.
“Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan agrees, saying Biden-Harris policies “are inhumane. They caused over 450,000 children to enter the country illegally who were separated from their families and out in the hands of criminal cartels and then they lost track of nearly 100,000 of them. HSI has found some children working in disgusting forced labor conditions and many being rented over and over again to the cartels to be used as pawns for single adults to claim a family unit,” he told The Center Square.”
Save the children. Vote Trump.
S. Meyer,
Well said and absolutely!
MURDERERS GOTTA MURDER
“What’s past is prologue.”
– William Shakespeare
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“What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
– Kamala Harris
Masterpiece Cake Shop was neither a speech nor religious issue.
Masterpiece Cake Shop was a private property matter.
No consumer of a private property private enterprise holds any dominion over the owner’s property.
No legislation that denies any aspect or facet of the full force and effect of the right to private property is constitutional.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
____________________
The 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers—subject to being “taken”—and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification and allowing ONLY
the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over his private property.
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5th Amendment
No person shall be…deprived of…property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
* The IRS might have something to say about it. The home was out in the market as public commerce. The cakes were also.
Please cite wherein the IRS obtained the power to amend the Constitution and deny the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop the sole power to “claim and exercise” dominion over his private property?
No legislation that denies any aspect or facet of the full force and effect of the right to private property is constitutional.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights exist for the benefit of free individuals.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights severely limit and restrict government and the regulatory or administrative state that is by and large unconstitutional.
Legislation and regulation are inferior to fundamental law.
The IRS will need to develop a workaround.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
😂 case law.
Please cite the Constitution for superiority of case law over the Constitution.
* both the cakeshop and the rental are sources of income, commerce. Neither are a private domicile of the owners.
IRS is always interested in commerce.
Irrelevant and immaterial.
Was the owner of the property charged with tax evasion?
You’re turning that into ASSterisk.
ATS – the IRS has an interest in INCOME – they have no involvement in commerce beyond income.
Property rights do not end with your home.
While the government improperly prohibits you from discriminating in SOME forms of commerce on a few NARROW basis.
You are always from to say NO for no reason at all.
Most of us CHOOSE not to discriminate for reasons that would negatively impact our investment.
Our for reasons that require us to become nosey busybodies.
I rent apartments – I do not ask :
Are you a Nazi
or a member of the KKK or Antifa.
But I do tell tenants that all the provisions of the lease are there for four purposes.
If you do not pay your rent – you will be evicted.
If you damage my property – you will be evicted.
If you waste my time – you will be evicted.
If you attract unwanted attention to me – you will be evicted.
I am not interested in your race, your politics, your religion – whatever you do behind closed doors with consenting adults .
I am allowed to be a nosey busybody – but that is a short road to fiscal ruin.
The cakes were custom-made, to order. How the Hell is that “out in the market as public commerce”?
* is the rental or the cakeshop tax exempt? Public commerce in both cases. It was argued poorly.
Taxes and the IRS have absolutely nothing to do with public accomodations laws – anti-=discrimination laws.
The IRS has nothing at all to do with it.
At to the rest – do you really beleive that you can actually prevent people from discriminating if they want to just with stupid public accomidations laws ?
Throughout this country you can choose NOT to hire, rent to, sell to or buy from anyone for any reason or none at all – EXCEPT for a small number of specific reasons.
Given that you can always say NO for NO reason – anyone who wishes to discriminate can do so, by simply having no reason.
All these laws do is encourage people to lie.
If you beleive someone is making decisions for bad reasons – do not do business with them.
Turns out Masterpiece Cake (2018) was a religious freedom case. The other Colorado case from 4 years later was a Freedom of speech case (303 Creative, involving a graphic designer).
“IN EXCLUSION OF EVERY OTHER INDIVIDUAL”
Masterpiece Cake Shop case was an irrefutable private property case and a dubious freedom of religion or freedom of speech case.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
George – while I actually agree – it is possible for two things to be true at once.
Nobel economist Ronald Coase proved Coases law
That with strong property rights and minimal friction free exchange will as optimally as possible resolve most all problems.
Jefferson’s “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness” line was cribbed from John Locke – except that Jefferson substituted the pursuit of happiness for property.
Even marx ultimately had to acknowledge that you can not make a political system work without private property.
Why would anyone rent an Air BnB Freakoff in the first place?
“Airbnb host accused of using hidden cameras and recording guests in Silver Spring”
–By Sierra Fox, Published August 8, 2022 6:55pm ED
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/airbnb-host-accused-of-using-hidden-cameras-and-recording-guests-in-silver-spring
“Lawsuit filed against Airbnb over peeping Tom ‘superhost'”
–By John O’Brien, Jul 21, 2022
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/628997563-lawsuit-filed-against-airbnb-over-peeping-tom-superhost
Site only allows two links, otherwise there are dozens more…
Leftist Cultists are far better organized and supported by Kamala/Biden/DNC/MSM. Americans should prepare for their tactics
Activists target Brooklyn home of NYPD cop they say aggressively handled protest
The protesters showed up at the cop’s home in Sunset Park about 9:45 p.m. Monday and began yelling at him from the sidewalk after spotting him on his front porch. “We want justice! We want Justin!” the protesters screamed, using the cop’s first name after he retreated into his home. The officer called 911 as the protesters set fire to an American flag and threw objects at the aluminum-sided home. When on-duty cops arrived, the crowd quickly dispersed and no arrests were made, officials said.
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/activists-target-brooklyn-home-of-nypd-cop-they-say-aggressively-handled-protest
Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC
The uptown Manhattan district office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat and the surrounding area was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti on Thursday night. According to security footage police viewed at the scene the following morning, the vandalism took place at around 11 p.m., on a night when pro-Palestinian protests took place around the city, on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/congressmans-office-vandalized-as-pro-palestinian-protests-reignite-across-nyc/
An Anti-fascist Guide to the US 2024 Election
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