{"id":18015,"date":"2021-03-31T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2021-03-31T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:34:18","slug":"overnight-news-glenn-kelman-redfins-white-male-ceo-again-pridefully-sides-with-the-forces-who-will-just-as-pridefully-exterminate-his-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18015\/overnight-news-glenn-kelman-redfins-white-male-ceo-again-pridefully-sides-with-the-forces-who-will-just-as-pridefully-exterminate-his-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Glenn Kelman, Redfin\u2019s white male CEO, again pridefully sides with the forces who will just as pridefully exterminate his\u00a0children."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSomeday soon you may get to talk to your children from behind bars. How much worse to have <u>put<\/u> them\u00a0there&#8230;\u201d<\/p><\/div>Continuing his quest to be real estate&#8217;s leading champion of the forthcoming anti-Ant genocide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/in-support-of-asians-pacific-islanders\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redfin&#8217;s Glenn Kelman yesterday jumped onto the pandering-to-aggrieved-Asians <s>boxcar<\/s> bandwagon.<\/a> As I&#8217;ve pointed out before, racism is a terrible idea for both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17983\/overnight-news-sleeping-with-the-enemy-asians-are-the-ants-grasshoppers-love-to-hate\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asians<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/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\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redfin,<\/a> none of whom have any excuse for their dalliances with bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>This was my instant reaction to Kelman&#8217;s newest anti-Ant admonition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe stood with Black Americans against violence then; now we stand with Asians and Pacific Islanders.\u201d \u2013Glenn Kelman, #Redfin.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Glenn, since you\u2019re up on all the latest bigotry stats: Who is it who persecutes Asians, most often?<\/p>\n<p>Who gains when Asian students or job applicants get screwed?<\/p>\n<p>Hiring the wrong people is obviously bad for business, but do you really think this abject racist pandermania works as marketing? Is there no one else in your life to condemn your deeply earnest bigotry? No one, even, to measure the substandard results?<\/p>\n<p>Fun to think that there is no way for you to talk about anti-Asian racism without admitting who are the worst racists in America, but I doubt any of this will keep Asians, Jews or other competent people out of the boxcars.<\/p>\n<p>I know you had an education, so you cannot claim you don&#8217;t know where your racist policies lead. Are you a grown-up, Glenn Kelman, or just another corporate clown?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glenn Kelman has posting privileges here, but, here or anywhere, I challenge him to defend his racism not to me, not to his shareholders or clients, but to his sons, who someday will face the artificial barriers to success he is erecting \u2013 unless they have by then already fallen prey to the anti-Ant pogrom.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redfin:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/ways-housing-market-will-change-after-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Ways the Housing Market Will Change After the Pandemic.<\/a> More Redfin bullshit. The exodus was caused by the riots, not the virus, as is obvious in Redfin&#8217;s own charts. What has happened to real estate values around CHAZ\/CHOP? What will happen if Derek Chauvin is not lynched, as planned?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNBC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/31\/pending-home-sales-fell-over-10percent-in-february.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pending home sales fell over 10% in February, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18015\/overnight-news-glenn-kelman-redfins-white-male-ceo-again-pridefully-sides-with-the-forces-who-will-just-as-pridefully-exterminate-his-children\/#more-18015\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomeday soon you may get to talk to your children from behind bars. How much worse to have put them\u00a0there&#8230;\u201dContinuing his quest to be real estate&#8217;s leading champion of the forthcoming anti-Ant genocide, Redfin&#8217;s Glenn Kelman yesterday jumped onto the pandering-to-aggrieved-Asians boxcar bandwagon. As I&#8217;ve pointed out before, racism is a terrible idea for both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18099,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18099\/overnight-news-like-orren-boyle-in-atlas-shrugged-redfins-glenn-kelman-makes-rules-because-he-cant-make-money\/","url_meta":{"origin":18015,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Like Orren Boyle in Atlas Shrugged, Redfin\u2019s Glenn Kelman makes rules because he can\u2019t make\u00a0money.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Is Glenn Kelman the Orren Boyle of real estate? 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