Conservative opinion journalist Michelle Malkin reports that she and her husband have been banned by Airbnb for a keynote speech that she gave to a white nationalist conference.
3/I've reached out to @airbnb asking what steps they took to obtain my full remarks at AmRen 2022 & how many other FAMILIES of #americafirst patriots like mine have been retaliated against & deemed dangerous individuals for peaceful, lawful free speech. NO RESPONSE. Screenshots: pic.twitter.com/8YNlFiTQfW
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 2, 2022
Here’s how she describes that talk that got her banned from Airbnb,
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.
Michelle Malkkin is in an odd pickle here, as she seems to acknowledge. She argued that bakers of wedding cakes ought to be able to refuse service to same sex couples. She twists herself in knots trying to distinguish the two issues, ultimately saying “but fair housing law” should apply here (an unusual claim about viewpoint discrimination, and out of character for her to defend fair housing laws in any case).
6/ To the “what about gay wedding cakes now” retorters: desserts and public accommodations are apples and oranges. Not just about freedom to contract but equal right to accommodation. Either stand by fair housing law/jurisprudence or repeal it all. Pick.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 2, 2022
She calls her Airbnb ban ‘de-platforming’ but it should be noted that there are several other sites through which she can still reserve homesharing stays. And she’s still permitted to stay in hotels.
Ms. Malkin says that she’s on a public crusade against Airbnb as part of her effort to counter the Anti-Defamantion League and protect the rights of speakers at white nationalist conferences. The conference she spoke at previously hosted David Duke by the way.
As a policy matter, I believe Airbnb ought to be free to ban white nationalists or others they disasgree with from their platform. However I’d prefer they simply give potential hosts a warning flag that this user is a white supremacist. Some hosts would refuse to rent to them, while others might insist they use only a rented unit’s back entrance.
She’s got so much Hate in her
Consequences!
Airbnb exercising their right of free speech.
Freedom to contract . . . or not contract. Let’s hear the same from the hotel chains and the airlines.
Bake the cake AirBNB
No idea who Michelle Malkin is but googling her, she’s American-Filipino so I doubt she was talking at a “white nationalist” conference – not in the traditional sense. Nowadays that term is used very, very loosely by the Left. And that’s the problem with these situations – why is AirBnb suddenly about politics and the moral arbiter for who can stay at their affiliated properties? Are we going to be taking political tests every time you sign up for a new service? Do they want the future to be full of twin companies – one that services liberals and one that services conservatives? And note this is completely different from the gay wedding/baker situation in Colorado. The baker was fine selling the gay couple any stock or premade cake, but he refused to make a custom wedding cake for their gay wedding. Malkin is simply asking for a place to sleep – not asking for any specialized or custom services which would make her stay any different than anyone else’s stay.
@Al C – American Renaissance Conference is very much a white nationalist gathering, which has hosted David Duke, why couldn’t be she there because she’s Asian?
I have no sympathy for Malkin or her ilk, but having said that, I see no reason why Air b n b should ban her or others expressing unpopular views from their platform (I’m not disputing their right to do so). Air b n b rents rooms/apartments/homes in which the renter typically has only the most minimal contact with the owner/manager and it’s unlikely that their views will actually ever come to the owner/managers attention. Certainly, when I stay at a hotel, I don’t expect (or want) to have any idea of the political views of any other guest and I wouldn’t expect everybody’s favorite whipping boy on this site , Marriott, to ban a guest who peacefully expresses unpopular views.
“However I’d prefer they simply give potential hosts a warning flag that this user is a white supremacist.”
Lol
@Gary It’s not just that she was attending but she was an invited speaker. If that doesn’t seem counter to your notions of what a “white nationalist” conference would look like, well, it does mine.
Article said, “However I’d prefer they simply give potential hosts a warning flag that this user is a white supremacist.”
Why, exactly, is she a “white supremacist,” since she’s obviously *not* white, by race (I think she’s Filipino)?
Kind of confusing …
I’m not a Malkin fan but I also know she’s not a white supremacist. I’ve read a number of articles she’s written, some of which I agree and some not. She’s far, far more tame than any noted BLM supporter who’s articles I’ve read. This whole cancel culture movement is bullsh*y and poisonous to society.
Summarily, if someone wants to ban her, so be it, but they better ban the real haters out there, not people who simply express a view they (a few corporate types) disagree with.
I’m not a Malkin fan but I also know she’s not a white supremacist. I’ve read a number of articles she’s written, some of which I agree and some not. She’s far, far more tame than any noted BLM supporter who’s articles I’ve read. This whole cancel culture movement is bullsh*y and poisonous to society.
Summarily, if someone wants to ban her, so be it, but they better ban the real haters out there, not people who simply express a view they (a few corporate types) disagree with.
What’s a bushabd?
So many idiots around.
This country is doomed. .
I’m thinking Airbnb is nervous because white nationalists include a subset that want to overthrow the U.S. Government (Proud Boys) and participated in just such an action about a year ago. Because consequences.
Remember that one? Airbnb is lumping all WN under that tent due to “extreme caution.” That’s what it looks like to me. Not saying she is;
never heard of her before. And please don’t jump all over me with your alternate realities about that national nightmare, I’m not listening…..
Al C, just curious . . . how do you feel about Jews and Catholics?
@AI C
Being a self-loathing uncle tom would seem to clear up why she’s speaking to a bunch of white supremacists. Still confused?
Forcing a bakery to produce a cake for the explicit purpose of celebrating a sodomitical union
vs.
Banning someone from using your platform because of what they have said on other occasions
Only the craziest lefties see these scenarios as identical.
@Jorge Paez — “… include a subset that want to overthrow the U.S. Government (Proud Boys) …”
Do you have *any* idea what the Proud Boys organization *actually* represents and whom they *really* are? Do you give unconditional support to their opposites — BLM and AntiFA? Which groups have been video documented to have caused greater *real* damages to our nation’s communities, properties, and lives, over the past couple of years? Or does that even matter?
Just wondering …
My virtue-signalling dogpile alarm went off and here I am!!
Hey (fill in name of narrative-of-the-day violator here)! Your comment is unacceptable and triggering!! You are bad, BAD, I say!
+1 virtue point for me. 🙂
There way too many replies defending some version of white nationalism. There aren’t two sides to hate.
@Dom You make too many assumptions about “white nationalism.” What’s Hawaii proud? What’s Black Power, or any other “pride?” There is only one race, the human race. And there should only be human rights, not womens rights, gay rights, or any other sub group. As soon as you grant rights to one group, you take away the rights of another group. It’s a no win situation.
Every race in the world is allowed to have pride, have a caucus, have a voice, have conferences, discuss problems affecting its community, and act in its self interest except White people.
Things will not change until conservatives start recognizing this is a war against them. We should be using our power on a local and state level to replace the police and district attorneys with those who will arrest the leadership of any company that disenfranchises and disempowers Whites. Writing letters doesn’t cut it. Whites shouldn’t let Airbnb to offer services to anyone if people are going to be excluded for standing up for the White community and freedom.
@Reno Joe – No idea why you’re asking but – I’m fond of conservative Jews and Catholics and not fond of liberal Jews and Catholics.
@Pete – Again, I know nothing of Malkin but that’s a typical slur the Left uses for any minority who doesn’t agree with their agenda. (Racial minority speaking here). And I still wouldn’t expect them to platform her.
Everything from advocating for free speech to being a practicing Christian or saying Merry Christmas is considered White nationalism now. At the most basic level, how is White people (or in this case an Asian woman) talking about issues affecting the White community any different than Blacks having a caucus in congress or the LGBTQA community advocating for itself. It’s not. Whites should be speaking up for themselves and acting in its self interest.
Republicans in conservative states and counties should be pursuing criminal action against all management within Airbnb. Airbnb management should not be allowed to transit through Republican controlled States and counties without being arrested. Then Airbnb management wouldn’t be so quick to conspire to deny Whites and Conservatives services and deny them a voice. Airbnb should be banned from operating in all conservative counties and States. Leftist states and counties routinely persecute conservative owned businesses yet Republicans never reciprocate. It’s why Republicans and conservatives fail. They are not willing to do what’s necessary to win. They never want to rock the boat and always want to be calm and peaceful when it guarantees them more failure. A few congressmen and senators might write a letter but they won’t call for counties and states to use their law enforcement power to fight against the left.
@AI C
I’m Jewish so I know these things. 80% of Jews (a distinct ethnic group, not just a religion) are liberal. Jews were the biggest supporters of the Bolsheviks in Russia. They still are here.
We have some incredible Jews on our side like the since retired Michael Savage (probably forced to retire by the radio industry to doing a podcast, although, his son is officially a billionaire from his energy drink sale to either coke or Pepsi). However, they are in the minority.
Wow – the same misinformation-spreading anti-vaxxers on this site…are apparently the same people defending the Proud Boys! Who woulda thunk it?!?!
How sad so many of you are. You claim to be Americans but you are nothing but bitter, passed over in life bully. Let go of your hate, being an American means expressing differences and looking for solutions together, not name calling, not lying, being a good loser. 99% of us are immigrants and have built this country in spite of our differences.
Freedom doesn’t mean being allowed to do whatever you want and treat people with disrespect. I applaud Airbnb giving these losers a taste of their own medicine.
Read the constitution folks and let’s get back to discussing our difference and looking for solutions, not blaming others for your failures in life.
Can an airline ban anyone who says something racist against white people? As a restaurant owner, can I only allow people in that say good things about Jesus? Pretty sure Airbnb is just discriminating against someone who says things they dont like – seems like that can be applied pretty easy across all businesses now.
Liberals love discrimination. And smelling their own farts.
@StricktlyFacts: Here is your definition of ProudBoys:
“The Proud Boys is an American far-right, neo-fascist, and exclusively male organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the United States.”
And you are putting your name out there in support? Are you Jackass Waterson’s roomate?
@SunViking
There is no “we” with America. America is a landmass with many different groups who have absolutely nothing in common with each other. America was built by White immigrants (first the Dutch/English/Germans/Spaniards and latter other groups like Italians and Irish) and put men on the moon. Different groups subsequently came illegally or against the will of the above group or were brought here and never were returned to their native lands. That means division will always exist. I have nothing in common with you just because I live on the same piece of land as you. I definitely don’t support you voting to tell me what to do.
Freedom means being able to live your life free from government coercion and do anything to your own body that you please and engage in voluntarily and consensual activities with whoever you please. That means everything from not wanting to bake cakes for something you don’t agree with to not being forced to pay for what you don’t agree with to being able to put any drug in your own body or not be forced to put a vaccine in your body.
Be honest. You don’t support freedom. You support slavery of Whites and conservatives by the leftist government and non whites.
@UA-NYC —
Do you differentiate between those who are *totally* anti-vaxx (ie, against even legacy vaccines such as measles, mumps, polio, etc) vs. those who are *actually* anti-coercive mask/”vaccine” mandates? Similarly, do you differentiate between the *hypocrisy* of those who condemn Proud Boys, while knowing *absolutely nothing* accurate about them, yet wholeheartedly support their opposites (eg, BLM and AntiFA), who have been proven, on countless videos, to have inflicted $Billions in *real* damages against our nation’s communities, properties, and lives?
Do *real facts* matter, anymore? Or has this nation already been reduced into a lock-step lemming society based on certain “approved” narratives and mandates?
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@sunviking82 — “I applaud Airbnb giving these losers a taste of their own medicine.”
Are you drawing an equivalency between the baker who refused to bake a cake for gays and Airbnb rejecting an Asian female journalist in retribution? Do you understand that the baker cited religious grounds for his refusal action? Did Airbnb base its rejection action on the same?
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@Ray — “Here is your definition of ProudBoys”
Thanks, but can you cite your source that defines Proud Boys in the way that you just did?
Hey Gary – did you have a gleam in your eye as you wrote this article? Or you just going invoking racism by association like the Crats currently do to anyone who opposes what they believe? (a la the Southern Poverty Law Center)
BTW – Pls dont compare Malkin to the Lgbtq/baker incident. Malkin got penalized for her beliefs. The Lgtbq folks were trying to pick a fight with the bakery for their beliefs.
Anyways – you all should check out amren org sometime. You might figure out that American Renaissance isnt about promoting David Duke and his ilk but discuss issues which would explain why the Crats are gonna get blown out in the congressional races later this year
@TimD – why capitalize “Hate”? How do you quantify “so much”? Your post is merely a rant, bereft of intellectual merit.
@Jorge Paez — some consequences are neither equitable nor sensible.
@Fan — more like their freedom to do as they please as a private business. More power to them; as a private citizen I shall also conduct no further business, either as a customer, or as a consultant in any professional capacity. This does not imply that I am a White supremacist. I am emphatically not a white supremacist.
@Reno Joe — please, airlines and hotels have been around decades longer than Airbnb. The classic business model of keeping business and politics separate is time tested. Airbnb’s wokeness is a risk, assuming the company is smart enough to realize it (they may not be, since they hire almost exclusively woke airheads) (note: I say this as someone who has been professionally involved in hiring, from the Individual Contributor to the executive management levels at Airbnb prior to its IPO.)
@JackPhillips — no person in America deserves to be discriminated against for their sexual orientation. The gay cake matter bears no relation to banning a customer expressly for political opinion, which is not a protected characteristic. Sexual orientation is not politics therefore your analogy breaks down. Analogies tend to have that effect by the way. Let’s comment on the matter at hand, not an unrelated one (which is a settled matter — you do not discriminate against a protected class. Period.)
AirBNB is targeting conservatives here just like other big tech. Meanwhile, BLM caused so much destruction over the summer of 2020 and attacked and called for attacks on police, yet they get a pass on everything in the name of “equity” (which has yet to be defined)
@Al C — Airbnbs are much more than a place to sleep. According to the company, they’re a place to belong. I am just passing this information to you without express judgement.
@Gary Leff — …
@Jerry — “the peaceful expression of an unpopular view” is sacred, A friggin’ Men!
@Sco — Lol what?
@Al C — White nationalism is the belief that White nations should exist meaning other races should live in their own nations. None of that belief is at odds with the invitation of a non-White speaker, who may be invited to advocate this type of segregation. Having a limited passing familiarity with Michelle Malkin’s publicly expressed views however I don’t believe Malkin to be a White nationalist in any way shape or form.
@StrictlyFacts — please don’t conflate White nationalism with White supremacy, neither of which I espouse, I may add. The two are completely different.
White nationalism as I described in my comment immediately prior, is the belief that White nations should exist as distinct entities. It is the repudiation of racial melting-pot mxing.
White supremacy is the belief in the supremacy of White people. The mere demarcation of a White nation does not imply supremacy.
Certainly many White nationalists are also White supremacists but the distinction must be preserved. Unfortunately many academic scholars in the humanities disagree with me. I acknowledge the disagreement, but do not respect it. Humanities are not sciences. Methodology in the humanities is deeply flawed, saying this as somebody with a doctorate in the humanities by the way.
@Jim Warren — you are correct on cancel culture. The only people who need to be cancelled are —
— guess who, nobody.
Cancel culture is so disrespectful of our system of jurisprudence which we have refined over centuries. Cancel culture metes disproportionate punishments for acts that would be laughed out of the precinct, should one make the effort to file a police report about the act that would subject its actor to cancellation.
If somebody is accused of a crime, they deserve due process and a fair, non-cruel, non-unusual punishment.
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Another stock to short that will eventually implode due to leftist irrationality. #gowokegobroke
Short sell $ABNB.
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Whew! We made it to the 2nd page of comments. Let me just put this here.
Airbnb has the absolute right to do this. In America. Which may not be a prosperous country for much longer but that is neither here nor there, anywho…..
Airbnb was absolutely stupid to do this and I hope their business fails. I would sooner stay at a Marriott hotel — on my own dime, on a Priceline rate, no elite perks, in a tiny room next to the train tracks, where the mattress is stained and housekeeping left for the day and the toilet overflows and the sink doesn’t drain — than even an Airbnb Luxe that somebody else is paying for.
Big Booty, so why do they call you Big Booty?
idk man why do you go by reno joe
AirBnb is a travel agent lodging booking company. It should only ban people who are a threat to (1) damage properties (2) fail to pay (3) engage in prohibited discrimination (4) use property for an illegal purpose. Period.
This BS about AirBnb being a private company and can make their own rules is nonsense. AirBnb is subject to all federal and state antidiscrimination laws including the California Unruh act which prohibits discrimination based on political views.
What’s next airlines that refuse to fly someone because they are wearing a Trump hat?
At some point the cancel culture needs to stop.
This is not an endorsement of Malkin or white supremacists. If you don’t want these people renting your place then simply dump airbnb, run an advert on google and screen people yourself.
@Boraxo — a private, American company is entitled to make their own rules in America so long as they comport with all federal and state (and municipal) laws you are correct but please read the laws you are citing because political viewpoint is not a protected class and it is completely, legally, acceptable to do what Airbnb did to Michelle Malkin.
The protected classes are:
Political viewpoint is not included
It is amazing how all of you perfect people on the left are always trying to cancel, ban, attack anyone who happens to have a different opinion than you do. This once (and I say once) great country is going down the drain due to the mentality of the “cancel culture crowd”. It was born/created out of different opinions/thoughts. I wish I could go through each and every one of your commenters’
life who has made a negative remark about this young lady’s life. I bet it wouldn’t be pretty.
@C E B – America is still a great country today. It is just not clear how much longer that will last. The cancel culture crowd is only one reason and might be a trivial reason. All empires fall, history teaches us that much. Another reason would be blatant overvaluation of companies like Airbnb.*
*This opinion is mine and does not reflect the opinion of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
No clue what the heck amren is, but I would be willing to bet Jussie Smollet remains free and unfettered regarding his Airbnb account.
Slow news day
I’m guessing all the people who are calling her a “white supremacist” don’t know that she is Asian. I’m left-leaning but this cancel culture is too much.
“Let the market decide.” The free market has spoken.
@C E B like the Republicans ‘cancelling’ LIz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for investigating an attack on the Capitol that wounded 140 officers?
@Big Booty – Ok, that seems like definition of white nationalism which would be similar to my understanding of it. Therefore, it wouldn’t make sense to invite Malkin as a speaker since she is an American-Filipino. She’s by definition what white nationalists don’t want – unless someone thinks she’s calling for all American-Filipino to leave the US and go back to the Philippines, but that seems absurd and wasn’t at all what her talk was about.
@Jackson W
My family escaped oppression for religious freedom on the actual Mayflower and my family has fought for this country since that time. We hide escaped slaves during the civil war and while I am WASP and Italian Catholic, I am not racist or against any religion. I am a conservative, so was Lincoln and it was the GOP, not the democrats who started to break down barriers (BTW, the Southern Democrats were the first to invoke voting restrictions. . . open a history book and read it).
I support freedom, not free reign, not bullying, not disrespectful behavior. There is a difference but many have forgotten how to behave, how to act when they don’t agree with other. Trump and his lowlifes are how other countries picture the United States, and now they have been exposed and it’s time to show them HOW to be a US citizen.
@ceb, like those of you on the right who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6?
So my takeaway is if you don’t want to be banned from Airbnb, don’t be a piece of human garbage like Michelle Malkin.
Well, it’s pretty easy to not be like her. You have to try really damn hard to be as awful of a person as she is.
@Big Booty
Might want to read the article lined in her article. Written by a fairly distinguished Law prof form UCLA, recounting the various anti-discriminatory statues around the country, include Unruh
Excerpt:
The California public accommodation statute doesn’t specifically list political affiliation as a forbidden basis for discriminating in public accommodations or housing, but the California Supreme Court has read it as generally barring a wide range of “arbitrary discrimination,” including—though in dictum—political affiliation discrimination:
Under the [Unruh Act], an individual who has [not violated any reasonable rules regulating the conduct of patrons or tenants] cannot be excluded solely because he falls within a class of persons whom the owner believes is more likely to engage in misconduct than some other group. Whether the exclusionary policy rests on the alleged undesirable propensities of those of a particular race, nationality, occupation, political affiliation, or age, in this context the Unruh Act protects individuals from such arbitrary discrimination.[14]
An earlier decision likewise stated that, under the Unruh Act, a shopping center couldn’t exclude prospective customers “who wear long hair or unconventional dress, who are black, who are members of the John Birch Society, or who belong to the American Civil Liberties Union.”[15]
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So there’s the LETTER of the law, in which case, you would be correct, and there there is how the courts are interpreting it. ‘Nother thing…
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Link: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/18/bans-on-political-discrimination-in-places-of-public-accommodation-and-housing/
The common law duty of innkeepers to provide lodging is centuries older than the Constitution or any civil right statues.
Those who hold themselves out as providing lodging to the travelling public have established duties toward prospective guests.
Google “Innkeeper’s Right to Exclude or Eject Guests, Fordham Law Review 1938” for a good overview of the common law long before any civil right statutes.
The article has a very good section on whether innkeepers can exclude prospective guests on the basis of bad character or reputation in the absence of a probability that the prospective guest will damage or cause a disturbance at the place of lodging. I recommend reading that section, which concludes in part:
“True, an innkeeper may keep out one who would bring discomfort to his guests. But the presence of a person, known to be privately immoral, yet acting decorously, can disturb only the fastidious, and the necessities of the traveling public must be protected before these nice sensibilities.’ It is submitted that the presence of a bad character brings no direct physical discomfort, but offends only the moral sense. An advocate of euthanasia would hardly be less offensive, yet who would deny his right to
accommodation at a hotel? Private virtue cannot be made a condition precedent to admission. But the inveterate thief, who probably will purloin the goods of host and fellow guests can rightfully be denied admission; similarly, a person of such immoral nature that misconduct in the hotel is reasonably expected, cannot complain if refused accommodation. Obviously, one who intends objectionable conduct forfeits his right to enter”
To those who say that “political affiliation” is not a protected class under any civil rights statutes, the answer is: doesn’t matter, doesn’t have to be.
@SeanNY2 People renting out their homes aren’t innkeepers.
AmRen are normal conservatives honest about race….which places like National Review once acknowledged before they became neocon toilet paper rags. Typical hypocrisy and lies. Call the Filipino American a white supremacist.
“Michelle Malkin reports that she and her husband have been banned by Airbnb for a keynote speech that she gave to a white nationalist conference”
UTTERLY FALSE !
MM did not say she gave a speech to “a white nationalist conference” (sic).
Yes, I know the far left reflexively calls anyone to the right of Chaiman Mao a white nationalist, but Michelle absolutely did NOT call the AMREN conference White Nationalist, so why in the world are YOU lying that she called them that?
I do understand the concept of ‘clic bait’ titles, but this is so far over the line as to be totally disgusting !
bhcompy says: @SeanNY2 People renting out their homes aren’t innkeepers.
bhcompany: You can also say that a hotel is not an inn. Or maybe a hostel is not an inn. The question is not common parlance, but whether under the law management of a lodging establishment owes the duties of an innkeeper. In Michigan, for example, lawyers think they do. The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that they don’t if they rent out the entire house, but they probably do if they just rent one or more rooms.
Malkin, for example, could try to rent a single room on AirBnb in Virginia and some would say she’d have a very good case under Haynes-Garrett v. Dunn, 818 S.E.2d 798 (Va. 2018).
Airbnb is not an innkeeper. It is a website that connects travelers to people who are selling, lawfully or not, space that may not even be a private accommodation. As a lawyer I would not waste my time arguing this case.
Those entities selling accommodations, whether innkeepers or not, have not expressly banned Michelle Malkin. This further weakens any legal grounds.
David Duke was the Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan between 1974-1981. He gave a speech at University of the Pacific while I was in college during that time. It was informative and solidified my negative feelings about the KKK. Free speech is so much better than cancel culture. Rather than live questioning, Duke asked us to write questions down and pass them to the front. The first two: “Do you like soul food?” and, “Where do you get your sheets cleaned?” We should trust people to think for themselves rather than censoring opposing points of view.
The wedding cake analogy misses the mark so badly, it’s a straw man argument. The same-sex couple wanted a wedding cake that featured a groom and a groom or bride and a bride. In other words, they wanted her to perform work that went against her religious beliefs. Airbnb is banning Malkin due to her political beliefs, not because she is asking them to do something outside of what they normally do. It’s not like she’s asking them to put out Trump flags on the building for her visit. By the way, what Airbnb is doing is illegal. If she sues, she will win.