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If we were to adapt those terms and say instead that he was out to persecute people who are non-white or female, we would recognize at once that he is a hateful bigot – a racist and a sexist. If you didn’t have to make that mental swap to see the truth, call yourself wise – wiser, certainly, than Kelman.
Ignore altogether the Great White Father posturing of a white male so at war with whiteness and maleness that he most certainly must not resign – thus to rid his company of his own malevolently melanin-free toxic masculinity – but must instead remain heroically in charge to rescue all the pathetically helpless black, brown and ovaried people. There is nothing hypocritically ugly in that pose.
Ignore, too, that Redfin and a zillion other corporate villains are bragging about their racism and sexism, all of a sudden. Here’s another clue for you all: The people being unfairly helped were not hurt by the people being unfairly hurt. There is nothing of “justice” in any of this, simply prideful virtue-signaling of the ugliest of human vices. Public preening like Kelman’s is just the real-life enactment of The Hunger Games, where the capricious choosing of the slain masquerades as noblesse oblige.
Consider this, though: The officer roles in a publicly traded company are fiduciary. Kelman should not put his personal politics ahead of the profitability of his typically-unprofitable company – but his doing so creates liability that his shareholders should enforce. Deliberately hiring the wrong people to make a point is the ostensive definition of a fiduciary violation.
But go once further: Redfin is a real estate brokerage. It is fiduciary to its clients for every single activity it undertakes. The claim that the deal having been screwed up matters less than the (reported) skin color or (imputed) gonads of the screw-up seems unlikely to fare well in court. For a real estate broker to hire on any basis but demonstrated merit is both a fiduciary violation and a failure of supervision.
Ordinary bigots – few though they may be – are free, at least for now, to think, feel, speak and publish as they choose. Should they hire or fire personnel or lease or sell real estate for bigoted reasons, they get prosecuted. Unless, that is, they are corporate big shots expressing the currently-fashionable bigotry of “social justice” – in which case the most blatant violations of fair employment, fair housing and consumer protection laws are matters of boasting and ballyhoo.
My apologies for not paying better attention. Apparently, Kelman has been doing this racist jive for years now. It’s funny in all sorts of ways – Latinx! – but the funniest thing of all is that Redfin’s client base is Glenn Kelman – white, male and very nerdy. I can’t think of any better expression of self-loathing than to make an obsession of rendering his company not like him – deliberately screwing his own younger self out of the job he deserves more than any other candidate, over and over again – all while not taking the obvious exit – resignation.
Ahab-like, and hounded by obvious redlining and boundless disparate impacts, Glenn Kelman will rid Redfin of every wretched white male but one…
In other news:
Housing Wire: Existing home sales are still too hot.
Housing Wire: Millennials are driving US home sales.
Housing Wire: Mortgage delinquencies are declining, but a rise is coming.
Sky News: ‘Never before’ has the leader of the free world been ‘so cognitively compromised’.
The American Mind: Once Upon a Presidency: From Populist to Dissident.
