"One word says it all. Asian"

25 year law student with an AirBnB reservation in a California ski resort town (Big Bear? I don't know it personally)---was texting asking if she could add two more friends to the reservation and pay extra; AirBnB host said yes.

Then, having slogged through the slow and roads to get there (she needed chains on her tires)---when she went looking for the final details for location/entry---the host seems to have gone ballistic---and turned quite racist.

Not a happy video.
Found it somewhere else (can't remember where; SFGate?)--but the Gizmodo commentary is worth adding.

"Suh, who is enrolled at UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, said that she and her friends were uncertain where they’d find shelter for the night, their alarm exacerbated by an increasingly heavy snow storm. Luckily, they happened upon a KTLA 5 News van, populated by reporters doing a story on the snow. (California, amirite?)

Suh relayed the situation to one of the team’s reporters, who filmed the interview on his smart phone. The friends were eventually able to locate a “cute cabin after two hours of roaming around the snowy mountain,” Suh said.

The group may have made it to safety, but the viciousness of the incident will continue to haunt Suh.

“I’m an American citizen. This is my home,” Suh said during her interview with KTLA 5. “It stings. It stings that after living in the U.S. for over 23 years, this is what happens.”
siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, April 9th, 2017 9:49am PDT - promote requested by original submitter SFOGuy.

newtboysays...

So, they reported her to airbnb, right? They'll kick that stupid racist out instantly for that and probably pay for this woman's replacement lodgings, or at least her next trip. Airbnb is far from perfect, but they absolutely don't allow this behavior. Report it.

Too bad the interview didn't happen in front of the place they were denied, it would be nice to expose and identify her as the racist idiot she is before she does this again..

SFOGuysays...

The Sift isn't in to..doxxing...but despite the host's best attempts to disappear in the past 12 hrs...her info is all over the web.

The most bizarre part (or maybe not?)---she is an ESL teacher...attended two fundamentalist colleges, one for a masters.

Strange. Or not?

newtboysaid:

So, they reported her to airbnb, right? They'll kick that stupid racist out instantly for that and probably pay for this woman's replacement lodgings, or at least her next trip. Airbnb is far from perfect, but they absolutely don't allow this behavior. Report it.

Too bad the interview didn't happen in front of the place they were denied, it would be nice to expose and identify her as the racist idiot she is before she does this again..

00Scud00says...

Let me guess, her masters was in Racist Asshole?
And can you really still call it doxxing if your info was widely publicized as part of an online rental service?

SFOGuysays...

I meant VideoSift...the landlord/host's info is everywhere ---but all that AirBnB gives you about a host is the first name---which (I guess) I can post, since that was part of the KTLA news article---"Tami"...

00Scud00said:

Let me guess, her masters was in Racist Asshole?
And can you really still call it doxxing if your info was widely publicized as part of an online rental service?

Jinxsays...

Sometimes I kinda wish the ethnic minorities did leave just to watch white supremacist 'murica implode on itself.

newtboysays...

Um....all white 'merica isn't supremacist. What about that +-75% of us that aren't?

Jinxsaid:

Sometimes I kinda wish the ethnic minorities did leave just to watch white supremacist 'murica implode on itself.

MaxWildersays...

I'm up for leaving with the minorities, if it would help snuff out the stupidity of racism.

newtboysaid:

Um....all white 'merica isn't supremacist. What about that +-75% of us that aren't?

Jinxsays...

Supremacist or not, you'd be allowed a place in their white supremacist utopia! Their rules not mine!

Wasn't my intention to suggest all white Americans are supremacists.

newtboysaid:

Um....all white 'merica isn't supremacist. What about that +-75% of us that aren't?

newtboysays...

Yeah...except that ignores your original point, that without non-whites efforts, 'merica would implode. I don't feel like a racially pure white supremacist nation would be a utopia in any way, even though I'm extremely white. (for one, my wife would have to go, not cool, and probably me for marrying her)

Jinxsaid:

Supremacist or not, you'd be allowed a place in their white supremacist utopia! Their rules not mine!

Wasn't my intention to suggest all white Americans are supremacists.

coolhundsays...

A comment from Youtube:
"So, this horrible and blatant act of racism happened to occur to a former ACLU civil liberties counselor who majored in Critical Race Studies -- described as a major aimed at "naming one's own reality" by "using narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression." Isn't it ironic and unfortunate that this would happen to her of all people?

What's also a little ironic is that Ms. Suh not only received these texts from a "Tami," but also happens to have a Facebook friend named "Tami" who posts on Facebook about "Tiny House Listings" -- a house rental service.

Speaking of which, it's kind of interesting that Tami showed up as "Tami" on Ms. Suh's phone, rather than as a phone number, isn't it? And there's a photo for Tami too. That means Tami is saved as a contact. It's a little odd for some random Airbnb host that Ms. Suh never met in-person to be a contact with a photo on her phone, isn't it?

Interestingly, if you look at Facebook-friend "Tami's" photos, they're all sort of artistic, colorful photos of inanimate objects -- just like Tami's photo in the texts.

If I didn't know better, I would almost, almost think that this stilted, formal, perfect little racist exchange between house-renter Tami and critical race studies major Ms. Suh, and the passionately tearful speech in the rain that followed -- why was she making speeches in the rain anyway? -- was, in fact, a carefully constructed "narrative" that Ms. Suh conspired to create with her Facebook-friend Tami.

But hey, that couldn't be right, could it?"

Hmmmm...

eric3579says...

It's not that hard to find all the information on the case. The "Tami" is well known to the internet now. You just have to spend the time and look into it. To much personal info or id post it myself.

Is it possible you just like your yt narrative better? Hmmmm...

coolhundsaid:

But hey, that couldn't be right, could it?"

Hmmmm...

coolhundsays...

I just posted it here to think about it. It is still very fishy. But of course you can help me, unless of course you suggest that I am trying to defend racism. Then you have already made up your mind anyway.

In a world where a US president helps Al Qaida, everything is possible.

eric3579says...

Sent you a pm with some info.

Well that last line you had written and the tone in which i read it (in my head) did make me wonder. My bad

coolhundsaid:

I just posted it here to think about it. It is still very fishy. But of course you can help me, unless of course you suggest that I am trying to defend racism. Then you have already made up your mind anyway.

In a world where a US president helps Al Qaida, everything is possible.

coolhundsays...

Thank you! Well, its obvious now.

eric3579said:

Sent you a pm with some info.

Well that last line you had written and the tone in which i read it (in my head) did make me wonder. My bad

newtboysays...

On my tablet, each individual we rented an airbnb from in Iceland automatically had their chosen profile picture attached to each email, and many were landscape or building photos, so this part at least is not so odd. I'm just guessing it works the same on cell phones, I don't have one.

It is ironic that a civil liberties counselor had this happen, but that's probably why it gained attention. This kind of thing happens daily, but usually not so blatantly or with such a clear 'paper trail' of emails. It still could be fake, but anyone with 1/2 a brain would know that faking something like this will be exposed quickly and ruin their future, so I hope it's not.

coolhundsaid:

A comment from Youtube:
"So, this horrible and blatant act of racism happened to occur to a former ACLU civil liberties counselor who majored in Critical Race Studies -- described as a major aimed at "naming one's own reality" by "using narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression." Isn't it ironic and unfortunate that this would happen to her of all people?

What's also a little ironic is that Ms. Suh not only received these texts from a "Tami," but also happens to have a Facebook friend named "Tami" who posts on Facebook about "Tiny House Listings" -- a house rental service.

Speaking of which, it's kind of interesting that Tami showed up as "Tami" on Ms. Suh's phone, rather than as a phone number, isn't it? And there's a photo for Tami too. That means Tami is saved as a contact. It's a little odd for some random Airbnb host that Ms. Suh never met in-person to be a contact with a photo on her phone, isn't it?

Interestingly, if you look at Facebook-friend "Tami's" photos, they're all sort of artistic, colorful photos of inanimate objects -- just like Tami's photo in the texts.

If I didn't know better, I would almost, almost think that this stilted, formal, perfect little racist exchange between house-renter Tami and critical race studies major Ms. Suh, and the passionately tearful speech in the rain that followed -- why was she making speeches in the rain anyway? -- was, in fact, a carefully constructed "narrative" that Ms. Suh conspired to create with her Facebook-friend Tami.

But hey, that couldn't be right, could it?"

Hmmmm...

newtboysays...

Agreed, but the landlord sets the rate ahead of time. If that's what she contracted for, she has no right to complain later. I also have to wonder if that's $50 each, so $200 per night, because that would be more in line with normal prices....although you can get insane deals if you're there in a storm, most people won't drive and/or ski in white out conditions so there are a lot of cancelations.
Or maybe it's really just a shed and $50 is overcharging? ;-)

greatgooglymooglysaid:

$50 does seem very cheap for a place by a ski resort. But turning someone away like that in a snowstorm, you have to be pretty heartless.

Paybacksays...

I think you're just being silly.


He FOUNDED ISIS, he never helped al Qaida.

Sheesh.

coolhundsaid:

I just posted it here to think about it. It is still very fishy. But of course you can help me, unless of course you suggest that I am trying to defend racism. Then you have already made up your mind anyway.

In a world where a US president helps Al Qaida, everything is possible.

coolhundsays...

I was actually talking about Trump at that moment.
Obama never founded ISIS. He helped create them, just like Bush.
And Obama helped Al Qaida, too, to topple Assad, with all the weapons, training and money they got. Directly or indirectly.

Paybacksaid:

I think you're just being silly.


He FOUNDED ISIS, he never helped al Qaida.

Sheesh.

coolhundsays...

Oh btw, I informed myself better about this case now, and I dont agree with what the source of eric3579 says anymore.

What his source hides is, she was about 5 minutes away from the cabin when she asked about the dogs and her friends. Sure, "Tami" is an ass for agreeing to it at first, but you have to be a very audacious person to drive "hours" with your friends and pets and then ask minutes before you arrive if its ok to bring them. That alone is reason enough to cancel that reservation. Thats why she called her a con artist.
Calling her "Asian" and stuff was just much later, and actually her behavior is that of an Asian stereotype, so... race? No. But of course she interpreted it like that, if you look at her career. Shes an anti-capitalist and other things that fit so very well into her acting.

Nothing would have changed, if Tami would have said no from the beginning. Because they were almost there anyway. They would have wasted that time on their own account in any case. But she tried to spin a race case out of this, because she didnt get her will. And many many people got fooled by it.
And that alone, driving hours with your friends and pets, and only announcing minutes before arrival that those pets and people are coming with them, and even finding a film crew that quickly, them setting this up so perfectly, makes this story look absolutely planned and the race thing just played into her hands a little bit (not really if you examine it closely). There is no denying it. We all have been fooled.

People like her are even trying to make a race thing out of the United case.

newtboysays...

Where did you get this information that diametrically opposes her claims?
She said they confirmed the extra people were OK before they left home, and was told there's an extra charge, then was denied when they were 5 (3) minutes away calling for directions (if you don't know, many Airbnb listings don't include the address or directions beyond 'go to this town/intersection and call', so calling for directions 5 minutes away is not so abnormal.)
The pets, if not preapproved, are a perfectly good reason to deny her, but that's not what the landlord said in her texts.
Really? Her behavior is that of an Asian stereotype? You're going to have to explain that, as it sounds pretty racist itself.
As for the camera crew, it's a cell phone video. When you're lost in a whiteout, you ask the first people you can for help, the reporters were stopped there reporting on the blizzard in the pull out spot where her party was putting on chains, not flying past her, so she probably asked them for help or directions.
How is it "set up so perfectly"?
You certainly seem eager to support the landlord and dismiss all of this woman's claims as false, even with the texts from the landlord that were clearly racially dismissive and antagonistic in tone and no evidence yet that it wasn't purely racial discrimination. That's not a good look.

As for United, do you think they would have forced a younger articulate white doctor with patients to see off the plane like that? I don't.

coolhundsaid:

Oh btw, I informed myself better about this case now, and I dont agree with what the source of eric3579 says anymore.

What his source hides is, she was about 5 minutes away from the cabin when she asked about the dogs and her friends. Sure, "Tami" is an ass for agreeing to it at first, but you have to be a very audacious person to drive "hours" with your friends and pets and then ask minutes before you arrive if its ok to bring them. That alone is reason enough to cancel that reservation. Thats why she called her a con artist.
Calling her "Asian" and stuff was just much later, and actually her behavior is that of an Asian stereotype, so... race? No. But of course she interpreted it like that, if you look at her career. Shes an anti-capitalist and other things that fit so very well into her acting.

Nothing would have changed, if Tami would have said no from the beginning. Because they were almost there anyway. They would have wasted that time on their own account in any case. But she tried to spin a race case out of this, because she didnt get her will. And many many people got fooled by it.
And that alone, driving hours with your friends and pets, and only announcing minutes before arrival that those pets and people are coming with them, and even finding a film crew that quickly, them setting this up so perfectly, makes this story look absolutely planned and the race thing just played into her hands a little bit (not really if you examine it closely). There is no denying it. We all have been fooled.

People like her are even trying to make a race thing out of the United case.

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