{"id":17864,"date":"2021-02-20T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:39:31","slug":"overnight-news-why-is-glenn-kelman-redfins-white-male-ceo-so-bigoted-against-white-males-and-what-the-hell-do-his-racism-and-sexism-have-to-do-with-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17864\/overnight-news-why-is-glenn-kelman-redfins-white-male-ceo-so-bigoted-against-white-males-and-what-the-hell-do-his-racism-and-sexism-have-to-do-with-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Why is Glenn Kelman, #Redfin\u2019s white male CEO, so bigoted against white males \u2013 and what the hell do his racism and sexism have to do with real\u00a0estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou have my personal guarantee that BloodhoundBlog will never, ever turn\u00a0anti-Bloodhound.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman has apparently made a fetish of purging his company of the awful influence of creatures like himself \u2013 white and male.<\/a><\/p>\n

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 \u2013 a racist and a sexist. If you didn’t have to make that mental swap to see the truth, call yourself wise \u2013 wiser, certainly, than Kelman.<\/p>\n

Ignore altogether the Great White Father posturing of a white male so at war with whiteness and maleness that he most certainly must not<\/em> resign \u2013 thus to rid his company of his own malevolently melanin-free toxic masculinity \u2013 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<\/em> pose.<\/p>\n

Ignore, too, that Redfin and a zillion other corporate villains are bragging<\/em> 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,<\/em> where the capricious choosing of the slain masquerades as noblesse oblige.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

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 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou have my personal guarantee that BloodhoundBlog will never, ever turn\u00a0anti-Bloodhound.\u201dRedfin CEO Glenn Kelman has apparently made a fetish of purging his company of the awful influence of creatures like himself \u2013 white and male. 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