@Anonymous Oh god, people like you that go "You don't get to tell people what they deem racist/hurtful to them."... So if someone's say using Grindr to find people and do malicious things, I can't deem that hurtful to them? Sure it's an extreme, but that's what you're saying here.

Racism is simple it's people like you that are racist. Your entire argument here is you telling me not to do something you literally do in the same reply. If I can't tell someone how to feel, you can't tell me how to feel. If I can't lecture you, you can't lecture me.

It's also always hilarious to me that people like you will go "Unless you're (insert race) you'll never understand!" instead of actually trying to get people to understand. Why is this? I know the answer; it's because you yourself don't even know what you're arguing so you use cop outs. It's you with the "basic and limited understanding of the topic."

Saying you're only attracted to men, is that sexist? Saying you're only attracted to women, is that sexist? Saying you're attracted to younger guys, is that ageist? Just because I'm not attracted to women doesn't mean I'm sexist and can't be around them, can't stand them, etc. Just because I'm not attracted to older guys doesn't mean suddenly I'm ageist and can't stand older people. I can be friends with them all but there is no sexual attraction whatsoever. Yet somehow you say just because you're attracted to someone based on their race (and skin tone is only a small part of that) is suddenly racist. I think you need to learn the actual definition of racism so I'll post it here:

Racism - prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

Is there prejudice from sexual attraction? In otherwords, injury or damage resulting from it? No. Is there discrimination? No. Is there antagonism? No. It's literally a positive thing that you're attracted to someone and yet you still act like it's racism even though not a single bit fits the definition of racism.

Also, funny that you call me fragile when you're the one that can't stand someone actually likes you for something. Something you suddenly deem inappropriate for reasons you can't even explain yourself. You're also fragile since you're the one inserting things like racism where they don't belong purely because you NEED something to argue. Then when someone uses logic and fact against you, you turn into an emotional wreck and hope that "wins" you the argument by them not replying.

Having a filter is NOT racism. If it is going to be considered racism, then no filter should exist whatsoever. We shouldn't be allowed to say we're straight, gay, lesbian, etc. By your definition that's all an -ism of some kind. By your definition by me being gay I'm sexist. By me liking people of my own age I'm ageist. By your own definition we shouldn't be allowed to say what we're attracted to and should be forced into being attracted to every single person because anything else is "wrong." Like I said, your argument makes no sense and you know it doesn't.

@Eventide it's not that simple and you don't get to tell people what they deem racist/ hurtful to them or not above all what. Stay in your lane instead of lecturing people. There's been a hyper-sexualisation of black bodies since...forever and if you're not Black yourself, you have no idea what type of weird, sick and racist disguised as interest or attention we receive daily. So keep your very basic and limited understanding of the topic to yourself. No one said someone who happens to be attracted to black men smong others was racist, but the way you put it you contradict yourself because you say singling out someone because you say "saying I LOVE BLACK MEN" is not racist when it's actually singling out someone based on race. I actually hate when someone messages me and says that, I'm like do you need a medal for liking Black men? Who cares if you like Black, yellow or blue men? It's 2021ny skin tone is part of me but I'm more than that. Keep your reversed psychology and your fragility to yourself before judging who's racist or not, as this person may have had too many bad experiences hence decided to stick to Black men. I, personally would be tempted to do the same to avoid the cringe interactions,if only 95% of my area wasn't white. You clearly don't know what you're talking about so refrain from lecturing others. Things are much more complex and gays are often the most racist, they'll sleep with Black men but won't date one.

I wasn’t able to put my user name when I made this comment and I started a new thread I just feel Grindr is not paying attention. It’s quite frustrating and I will end my subscription and not renew unless they change the filter I just spent 15 minutes blocking people just to get to two people I was interested in. It used to be so much easier. Enough already.
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I am a Native American. We are already underrepresented everywhere. I would like to see the ethnicity filter back so that I can find other Native men easily. It would be nice to be able to find other dudes that share cultural commonality.

@Henrique, It's not even "hypersexualize black bodies" that makes it racist.. To find someone sexually appealing isn't racist. That'd be like a white guy saying "I LOVE BLACK GUYS" and you calling him racist over it.. that makes no sense. Sexual preference is not racism in any way whatsoever.

Singling someone out purely based on their race is racism. Like saying obviously the smartest kid is the asian. Or saying the black guy is more likely to be a criminal. Those things a racist.. not being white and saying you're only really attracted to black guys.

If you do want to say that's racist, then you're racist because you yourself said you're not interested in even talking to white people.

There are other threads on this topic but I am starting a new one because Grindr is so tone deaf. Ethnicity filter is absolutely essential to find guys close to you that you were actually attracted to. I go on grinder I spent all my time blocking blocking blocking. And I pay A premium for more services. Now I’m feeling it’s all a waste. Restore the filter restore the filter restore the filter.

I’am black and not really interested in talking mostly to white people and thats whats happening since the filter has been taken off. The racial filter is not racists itself, the problem is that ones who uses these funcnionality to hipersexualise black bodies.

Please restore ethnicity feature 🙏

All I see here is that Grindr doesn't really care for its users' needs. Grindr be like: 'Dear user, it's not that we need you, but the other way around. So we can do whatever we want. Even enforce our new social rules. Take it or leave it.' And the world ended. For Grindr.

I am a POC and do NOT want to see white guys on my grid. Now I only see white guys. This is a bigger problem now as the majority of users are white. Terminating premium after 5 years of paying continuously!

So because a few people got their feelings hurt that no one was messaging them, ya’ll decide to remove the filter. I prefer middle eastern guys. I am middle eastern. Before I used to see them all the time, now I see 2-3 of them max. Very disappointed and will be terminating my Grindr unlimited this month!

They should bring it back we all have a preference I'm black and it does not offend me one bit all other apps and sites have the option a4a has it scruff has it it's in no way being racist people are taking it to far it's just the same as if someone had in their profile that they only want to talk to hairy guys or fem trans and so on a lot of people on Grindr can't handle being told I'm not interested by someone and it's a shame because everybody that use the app is an adult hell I've been told I'm too tall too big too old and none of that bothers me

Grindr has been nothing else but a rip off ever since they removed the ethnicity filter. They have the extra option , platinum option or whatever it’s name for sky price but you can’t filter a simple thing which is ethnicity. I never payed a penny for it’s subscription since they removed the filter as it has been the only useful filter apart from the positions filter. Where is our freedom of choice to either go for the opposite ethnicity or the same as our own & have the option to narrow down hundreds and thousands of people to our preference not to be going trough 100s of profiles till we find one who we like or would like to vibe with. Even for normal friendly socialising it is important for us to be able to connect with opposed ethnicities and/or our own by our own choice at the time. BRING BACK THE FILTERS OR DROP YOUR PRICE TO €£$0.00

Yes I agree. I am south Asian, I like other south Asian men and would like the filter back too, it’s much easier to find rather than asking the person if their white asian black etc... it’s not nice, we all have our own own preferences I guess!

Bring it back or take away age and other filter options.

why not just restore it. Where was the outcry for years when it was part of the app. Created a problem that did not exist

Exactly. Stupid to remove it. If people have a preference, it allows them to focus on that. I would rather that than be message "hey, you white? asian? black" or whatever. We should all be attracted to everyone is SIMPLY NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS.

This was a lazy way for Grind to say it was doing something about bullying. How about just perma0banning bullies and racists?

I agree, please bring it back!

I wud like to filter my profiles based on ethnicity again . It was removed for being deemed as promoting discrimination but yet we can still filter by age weight tribes and sexual positions, to my understanding each of those filters equally promote the discrimination of one type of sub community or another, such as weight and age shaming, even sexual position shaming (yes thats a thing too). So why are we free to shame and discriminate in some ways but not others? Should it be that “whats good for the goose should be good for the gander”?

The ethnicity filter can be back with a small change so you can stop people from filtering out people of color.

It has been impossible for me, as a person of color, to find other people of color. I am an Asian man who are interested in black men and i live in a predominantly white area. It’s been impossible.

The whole reason why the filter was bad was people filtering out people of color. So small tweaks can restore it and still make it not racist:

-You can make the ethnicity filter temporary by one search. So you can’t keep on seeing just your race preference. Users will have to select each time if they want to find by a certain race. Then reset it next time they go back to main profile.
- or make “Asian” or “black” or “latino” a tribe and ignore the race filter all together.

Hope it helps