No Tolerance at Airbnb

As I attempted to log in to my Airbnb account yesterday, I was greeted with this message:

Before you continue
Whether it’s your first time using Airbnb or you’re one of our original travelers, please commit to respecting and including everyone in the Airbnb community.

I agree to treat everyone in the Airbnb community—regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age—with respect, and without judgment or bias.

Though I too often fail at it, my goal is to treat everyone with respect. But that doesn’t mean I always agree with them. And sometimes, I even think they are wrong. In other words, I judge them. And I judge whatever situation I’m in with the bias that comes with being a Christian who believes what the Bible says because it is God’s Word. I can’t not look at the world other than the way God describes it. And if there are people who are living out their lives outside of God’s Word, I’m going to see it as wrong–just as I see it is wrong when I sin against God. So I clicked ‘decline’ on Airbnb’s community statement.

When I did so, this was what I received next:

Cancel your account?
Declining this commitment means that your Airbnb account will be canceled, and your future reservations will be canceled. Why did Airbnb create this commitment? This commitment is an important step towards creating a global community where everyone can truly belong. Discrimination prevents hosts, guests, and their families from feeling included and welcomed, and we have no tolerance for it.

Because I disagree with them, Airbnb management decided to cancel my account. It appears they did so because they have no tolerance for those who disagree with them. They did, however, offer me the opportunity to provide them feedback, so here is what I wrote to them:

You say, “Discrimination prevents hosts, guests, and their families from feeling included and welcomed, and we have no tolerance for it.”

Yet at the same time you say you have no tolerance for discrimination you discriminate against me foot not believing the same things you do.

You want hosts, guests, and their families to feel included, but apparently not me or my family.

My son is already asking why we can’t use Airbnb on our next trip. I have told him that, unfortunately, some people, including the leadership at Airbnb, are not tolerant of those who disagree with them.

If you ever decide you can tolerate Christians who believe what the Bible says within your community, please let me know. We’d be pleased to come back in.

Of course, it is Airbnb’s prerogative as a private company to exclude me if they want. But for most folks on the Left these days, and perhaps Airbnb’s management sees it the same way, discrimination is a one-way street. A baker can’t discriminate by refusing to bake a cake for someone they disagree with. So, apparently, only Christians and those who hold to Christian beliefs can be excluded from the “global community” today. Everyone else is in.