Airbnb host who canceled reservation using racist comment must pay $5,000
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2WBQ3)
Exclusive: Tami Barker, who said she was canceling a guest's booking because the woman was Asian, must take a course in Asian American studies
An Airbnb host who canceled a woman's reservation using a racist remark has been ordered to pay $5,000 in damages for racial discrimination and take a course in Asian American studies.
Dyne Suh, a 26-year-old law clerk, had booked Tami Barker's mountain cabin in Big Bear, California, for a skiing weekend with friends in February, but Barker canceled the reservation by text message minutes before they arrived,stating: "I wouldn't rent it to u if u were the last person on earth" and "One word says it all. Asian".
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