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Can A Landlord Not Let To Who He Wants?
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I think you can read this situation as well as anyone else TTT, you just want to make it an issue because you seem to see it as a matter of choice, when it's not, it's a matter of law.
The gentleman has the same rights as anyone else offering a service - he is entitled to refuse without giving a reason. Now that reason maybe because he is a racist, but you can't be prosecuted for what you think (yet!) so he can simply stay silent and remain within the law.
One of the main problems with bigotry is that it often goes hand in hand with arrogance - it's not sufficient for you simply to be a small-minded nasty ignorant twonk, you have to make the world aware of that fact, in loud voice, usually by advising the said world that you are someone who 'believes in plain speaking'.
This man is a bigot, which is his own affair, but he makes his bigotry the subject of his loud mouth, and that makes it the law's affair as well.
If he could learn to dial down the arrogance and simply be a bigot on the quiet, no-one would know, and he could, as suggest, let his properties to who he wants.
The gentleman has the same rights as anyone else offering a service - he is entitled to refuse without giving a reason. Now that reason maybe because he is a racist, but you can't be prosecuted for what you think (yet!) so he can simply stay silent and remain within the law.
One of the main problems with bigotry is that it often goes hand in hand with arrogance - it's not sufficient for you simply to be a small-minded nasty ignorant twonk, you have to make the world aware of that fact, in loud voice, usually by advising the said world that you are someone who 'believes in plain speaking'.
This man is a bigot, which is his own affair, but he makes his bigotry the subject of his loud mouth, and that makes it the law's affair as well.
If he could learn to dial down the arrogance and simply be a bigot on the quiet, no-one would know, and he could, as suggest, let his properties to who he wants.
"The gentleman has the same rights as anyone else offering a service - he is entitled to refuse without giving a reason. Now that reason maybe because he is a racist, but you can't be prosecuted for what you think (yet!) so he can simply stay silent and remain within the law." - finally tell garaman!
Yes Prudie, that is what we demand too. We have turned people away also on grounds they do not have the ability to pay or have failed background checks.
No Asian tenants have every come to us, even when we had some properties in a predominately Asian area. We put it down to they seem to rent to 'their own', rarely did a for rent sign go up but properties changed hands. Maybe that culd be considered racist too if you really were looking for something to moan about?
No Asian tenants have every come to us, even when we had some properties in a predominately Asian area. We put it down to they seem to rent to 'their own', rarely did a for rent sign go up but properties changed hands. Maybe that culd be considered racist too if you really were looking for something to moan about?
//ad nauseam. " - wrong, it is the basic tennet of British law, the management reserve the right to refuse service. This chap made the mistake of explaining why, then it becomes a target for all the ism counters. If he simply refused with no explanation there'd be no issue. //
So the people who refused to bake the cake for the gay couple , should have given a different reason and not given the true explanation ?
So the people who refused to bake the cake for the gay couple , should have given a different reason and not given the true explanation ?
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