Picture your local realtor. The guy or lady you trusted when you decided to sell your last 2 homes (and buy two more.) Imagine that feeling of confidence that you’re in safe hands.
Now, vanquish that thought.
They’re gone! History!
1813News has learned the national race to stomp out individual thought has made its way into yet another area of local life.
At a Beaumont Board of Realtors meeting today we learned that the National Board has joined the ranks of the “establishment” to invoke Orwellian Thought Police in your lives.
The realtors have learned their First Amendment rights to free expression are being unapologetically dashed in the dustheap of history.
We have learned that if you’re a realtor who says something deemed “disparaging” out loud, on Facebook, with a friend DURING YOUR OFF-HOURS and in your PRIVATE life – you can be sanctioned by the Beaumont Board of Realtors.
And if the Beaumont Board of Realtors FAILS to sanction such a person who makes the remarks – the Board itself could be sanctioned by the National Board of Realtors and could lose its affiliation.
It would mean a nice lady real estate professional could lose her designation as a realtor because of her PRIVATE views expressed in her PRIVATE life!
And before your frontal lobe takes you to the idea of a closet-Nazi having her designation yanked please think how many people are now openly called racists on Facebook for views that fall short of full-throated adoration of Black Lives Matter!
The Board of Realtors tucks the new policy into a purported Code of Ethics that will be adopted this month.
Someday someone will have the courage to say “enough is enough” in the national crusade to altar thought and words. By then, your local realtor will be gone.
It’s not private if it’s on a public forum where other people can see it & judge you for it. It’s not your off-hours, either, everything I’ve read about getting into the real estate industry has told me it is one of the most time-consuming professions because you are always ‘on’ with your clients, many of whom you would use social media to reach. You must be inept to not realize you can set an audience on your posts and ridiculously stupid to think no one would care that you’re spewing hateful garbage and being unprofessional. Facebook is not a private living room. It’s not a secret shit-posting account on reddit or tumblr. Your name and face are intrinsic to your profession and if you’re saying stupid shit in on a public forum, it’s going to be tied to your name and face. Being problematic on Facebook is about the equivalent of going to your local watering hole and saying the most offensive thing you want to say as loud as you can over the music and other people talking and thinking that it won’t bite you in the ass. You really are delusional if you think being “in safe hands” means being in the hands of someone who doesn’t know what is acceptable behavior in front of potential clients.