Illegal for landlord to refuse on food preference?

[Gavia]

citizensm1th said:

Well i guess you can put it down to his all round pleasant demeanor and generous nature.

Whose? Breadvan doesn’t reply to the sycophantic posts, as far as I can see. Anyway, I’ve taken this way off topic, so will just chuckle to myself whenever I see these type of posts.

[HairyMaclary]

Mr Racist has been a racist again it seems. Now proven in court.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/ex-lan...

Hope the council publish the footage.

[The_Nugget]

I’ve just read all of this thread....it was entertaining.

cmaguire goes from pretending his ban on Pakistani tenants is not racist and does not make him a racist and trying to wind it back and play it down...to openly trying to justify it...to arguing it doesn’t matter because he is only one landlord...to arguing that it’s only immoral because the law says so....to arguing about the erosion of free speech.

For clarity:

1. Holding racist views - not illegal.
2. Speaking about your racist views - not illegal (free speech)
3. Banning a certain race from your properties - illegal.
4. Getting a megaphone and standing in the street espousing your racist views and urging all landlords to follow your views and eject their <insert race here> tenants - illegal (inciting racial hatred, not free speech)

finally, the fact that you are only one landlord does matter, because the law must be binary. Otherwise where do you draw the line? Is 100 landlords ok, or is it 1000? How do you get on the ok to be a racist bigot landlord list? How are the Government supposed to administer such a scheme? The admin would be a nightmare!

[lyonspride]

The_Nugget said:

finally, the fact that you are only one landlord does matter, because the law must be binary. Otherwise where do you draw the line? Is 100 landlords ok, or is it 1000? How do you get on the ok to be a racist bigot landlord list? How are the Government supposed to administer such a scheme? The admin would be a nightmare!

But it's not binary, not at all, it has more to do with your sphere of influence and your friend/contacts than anything else. We like to pretend we don't have any corruption in this country, but we're worse than most, because in other countries at least it's visible.

[The_Nugget]

lyonspride said:

But it's not binary, not at all, it has more to do with your sphere of influence and your friend/contacts than anything else. We like to pretend we don't have any corruption in this country, but we're worse than most, because in other countries at least it's visible.

In this case, as written it’s binary. Every system has issues.

[Mandalore]

The_Nugget said:

In this case, as written it’s binary. Every system has issues.

I think someone needs to take a Long look at their own prejudices in their failed attempt to look trendy.

[The_Nugget]

Mandalore said:

I think someone needs to take a Long look at their own prejudices in their failed attempt to look trendy.

I have literally no idea what you mean.

[anonymous-user]

It may come as a surprise to some, but most people who deplore proven racism don't do so in order to look trendy.

A suggestion that findings by courts that a person has been doing racist stuff are in some way linked to corruption seems a bit odd.