{"id":1282141,"date":"2022-02-08T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282141"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T19:52:41","slug":"airbnb-confirms-ban-on-commentator-michelle-malkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airbnb-confirms-ban-on-commentator-michelle-malkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb Confirms Ban On Commentator Michelle Malkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fairbnb-confirms-ban-on-commentator-michelle-malkin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Airbnb-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Airbnb has banned Michelle Malkin, blocking the right-wing political commentator from booking reservations on its platform, the company confirmed last week.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin, who has aligned herself in recent months with Nick Fuentes\u2019 America First movement, said on Twitter Wednesday that she and her husband had been banned from staying at Airbnb locations. The vacation rental company deleted Malkin\u2019s account because of her participation in the 2021 American Renaissance Conference, according to an email Malkin posted online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to our attention that you were a keynote speaker for the 2021 American Renaissance Conference earlier this month in Tennessee,\u201d the email said. \u201cAirbnb\u2019s community policies prohibit people who are members of or actively associate with known hate groups. Due to your promotion and participation in a known white nationalist and white supremacist conference, we have determined that we will remove your account from Airbnb. This is consistent with action we\u2019ve taken to ban people associated with this conference in past years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform confirmed Malkin\u2019s ban in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/michelle-malkin-banned-from-airbnb-after-attending-hate-fest\">The Daily Beast<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cConsistent with our policies, if we become aware of users who are members of or are actively affiliated with hate groups, we remove them from Airbnb,\u201d spokesman Ben Breit said.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin gave a speech at the American Renaissance Conference titled \u201cRace, Immigration, and Con. Inc: How I Came to See the Light.\u201d The conference is an annual event put on by the race-essentialist outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/about\/\">American Renaissance<\/a> which claims that \u201c[r]ace is an important aspect of individual and group identity\u201d and \u201cwhites, like all racial groups, have legitimate interests that must be defended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/prescottenews.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/06\/opinion-why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too-michelle-malkin\/?amp=1\">opinion piece<\/a> published last week, Malkin suggested that the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League\u2019s classification of American Renaissance as a \u201chate group\u201d played a role in her ban from Airbnb. It is unclear how much, if at all, Airbnb coordinates with the SPLC and ADL in its decisions to ban users. Airbnb did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn November, I spoke at a peaceful conference held by an organization that is deemed a \u2018hate group\u2019 by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League,\u201d Malkin wrote. \u201cA week after my talk, San Francisco-based Airbnb notified me that I was banned from using its services ever again and imperiously deleted my account. Poof!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC and ADL, left-leaning groups that claim to monitor hate and extremism, both consider American Renaissance to be a white supremacist outlet. The SPLC and ADL have come under fire in the past over claims that the groups unfairly malign right-wing people and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin said Airbnb\u2019s actions against her are part of an \u201cideological witch hunt\u201d against \u201canyone deemed an \u2018extremist\u2019\u201d and said that she had been a target of such \u201chunts\u201d by the SPLC and ADL since 2002 when she published her first book, \u201cInvasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this latest salvo crosses the line,\u201d Malkin wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough that I \u2014 a \u2018woman of color\u2019 (the left\u2019s own descriptive label, not mine) and mother of two multiracial children \u2014 was pronounced guilty of \u2018hate\u2019 crimes and \u2018promotion\u2019 of \u2018white supremacist\u2019 ideas for delivering a speech whose full content Airbnb didn\u2019t even bother to obtain from me. The Airbnb bullies also banned my equally nonviolent, nonhateful husband \u2014 who did not attend the conference and who is not a public figure or activist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airbnb took action against Malkin\u2019s husband\u2019s account in addition to her own because \u201c[a]s we can see that your Airbnb travels are typically reserved via your husband\u2019s account, we will also proceed in removing his account,\u201d according to the email Malkin posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither of us had ever had a negative review, complaint or policy violation of any kind. Are my kids next? Are yours?\u201d Malkin wrote. \u201cTake note: You\u2019re damned right I spoke peacefully and lawfully to the peaceful and lawful 2021 American Renaissance Conference and was honored to receive a warm welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI resoundingly reject the notion that condemning Black Lives Matter and antifa terrorists constitutes \u2018hate.\u2019 I defy the Airbnb thought police who consider my husband and me \u2018untrustworthy\u2019 and \u2018dangerous\u2019 threats to community safety on par with convicted felons and sex traffickers,\u201d she continued. \u201cGod willing, and with my readers\u2019 and viewers\u2019 help, I will fight these speech-stifling bigots who think they can get away with retaliating against me and my family for my journalism and activism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb has banned Michelle Malkin, blocking the right-wing political commentator from booking reservations on its platform, the company confirmed last week.Malkin, who has aligned herself in recent months with Nick &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}