I purchased Grindr extra to use the ethnicity filter. The intention is not to racially profile but to search by preference. If I’m interested in Middle Eastern men for example, I want to be able to see them. Once my subscription to Grindr extra ends I am not going to renew it. All Grindr is interested in is making money and not working for the LGBT community.

Why can we not sort against race? All other races will ask you the same thing in South Afirca. It is a common problem, nothing racial.

I agree people have a preference. I'll just use another dating cite until grinder gets their shit together

This feature request has over 5k votes, shouldn’t that be sufficient to reinstate the ethnicity filter? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Everyone has preferences. The same argument can be made about Grindr being sexist against women. It’s stupid. I prefer people of my own ethnicity and having to block everyone that isn’t my type is annoying and time consuming. I don’t understand what’s racist about a preference. People like what they like and it will always be that way. It’s not racist to go for a certain kind of person. I think taking away the filter has done far more bad than good, and I think it was a very ignorant decision to do it in the first place. I have nothing against people of other ethnic backgrounds. I do not believe anyone is inferior to my own. That doesn’t mean I’m attracted to them. Have a good day.

Imagine ordering on UBER EATS and not being able to select which type of cuisine you wanted? MADNESS would never happen, Uber as a business is not stupid they understand that some of there customers may want Chinese the others may want Fried Chicken.
What would be a stupid business idea is if they removed that filter option all together.. COUGH 🙄

this app is realy good

I'm white and prefer black men. The filter would make things easier for everyone. I'll also say I'm older and trans. I know not everyone is into that and I'm ok with it. People need to not be so uptight about preferences. We all have them.

I second this proposal!

If someone doesn’t want to meet with a white/black/Asian etc person they won’t meet with them, providing an ethnicity filter simply means it will make it easier for people to find what they are looking for

Why must I have to search through profiles of men I have no interest in? It makes no sense and how is that racist? I like who I like and if someone doesn't want to meet a married white guy, so be it. Next! I'm so tired of this woke society!

Ethnicity filter is a tool and it all depends on how one uses it. Like voice, hands or baseball bats.

Talking to another person in a calm and respectful manner will be different than screaming to him/her. Still the tool remains the same - voice.

Using hands to create something, to prepare food will be different than using them to hit or harm someone. Still the tool remains the same - hands.

Playing baseball and hitting balls with baseball bat is sports and fun. But using baseball bat to hit another person, to break windows is horrible! Still the tool remain the same - baseball bat.

Therefore filter of any kind can be used in a correct and incorrect way, but it does not mean it should not be accessible. It means that its use should monitored for breaches and the way one uses it in a correct way properly defined in TERMS OF USE to which users must agree, if they want to continue.

Therefore, I kindly ask you to BEING BACK ETHNICITY FILTER which can not only make the GRINDR experience more pleasant, but first and foremost allow many on the application to connect in a joyful way, find their soulmates or friends in similar environments around the world and very often even simply somebody who understands them like no one around.
Finally, it respects also freedom of choice and freedom of one’s preferences. Gay community fights with limitations. Why then GRINDR should be making any?

Thanks a lot in advance,
TJ

Please bring it back. I’m Hispanic and don’t have much luck with white men. Being in the US I have to sift through a bunch of white rejections to find my own people or other minorities who are interested. I just want to be able to get to the people who have a more similar culture and get me more, faster.

Please restore the ethnicity filter. I’m having to talk to people who don’t respond because I am Asian. It is really affecting my self esteem and
Confidence

The whole removal of the ethnicity filter really is one of the more stupid ideas and updates that have been made. Having the ethnicity filter makes it easier when searching. People will still be filtering but just by blocking the profiles of the ethnicity they don’t want appearing. Why won’t Grindr just make everyone’s life so much easier and reinstate it.

NEVERMIND!!

Removing the ethnicity filter is insane. As a white man in a majority white country who prefers men of colour, it is now harder for me to find the men I like.

Grindr were wrong to pander to a hysterical minority when the vast majority of intelligent and emotionally balanced people understand that there is nothing racist about having dating preferences for different races.

I'm gay and Asian in Michigan. Please restore this filter! Nevermind.

After 12 months of this insanity — and of putting up with worse racism as a result of the filter being removed — can you folks at grindr get down off your high horses, admit you made a mistake and restore this functionality please. You’re literally making a bad problem worse

This is just insane regressive left actions. The conflation of dating/sexual preferences with race. Everything now is to do with race. If you smile at a person of color it's racist. Don't smile and it's racist. Give them a compliment and that's racist. Don't compliment them and that's racist too.

An ethnicity filter is about letting people connect with the people they want to fuck. And let's be honest here, 90% of guys on Grindr are there to fuck. If a black guy only wants to fuck another black guy, is that racist?!? Of course not. It's a sexual preference. Just like I don't want to fuck women -- does that make me sexist?