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Each week on The Download, Inman’s Christy Murdock takes a deeper look at the top-read stories of the week to give you what you’ll need to meet Monday head-on. This week: How the anonymous poster TenDashFive is holding Realtors accountable for hate speech.
“Relax with the pride stuff.”
“Homophobic? Did you mean normal?”
“America might need to go down in flames.”
These are just a few of the comments highlighted on the Instagram account @tendashfive. Some other comments, especially those directed at Black women by a Texas real estate agent, were too vulgar to include here, though not, apparently, too vulgar or hate-filled for her to post publicly.
In a time of increasing division and hate-fueled violence, an anonymous Realtor has started to share hate speech from other Realtors, clear violations of NAR’s Standard of Practice 10-5.
“Most of the hate speech that Realtors are using is out in very public places like on the social media posts of NAR and the associations and the big brokerages. It’s very frustrating that we have the hate speech rule, that not only is it not being enforced, but most of the hate speech is in very obvious places, and people are doing nothing about it.”
Nearly three years after the National Association of Realtors passed a policy barring its members from using racist and discriminatory speech and behavior, a Realtor has begun calling out social media posts and comments he believes violate that policy on NAR’s own social media accounts and elsewhere.
The Realtor has created a blog, Instagram account, and Twitter account called “TenDashFive” after NAR’s anti-hate speech policy, Standard of Practice 10-5, under the Realtor Code of Ethics.
Although speaking out and creating a…