Bring back the race filter.

@Anyonymous "Sorry, but gay men that think it’s okay to treat others differently based on their race" You literally are trying to force everyone into your view. Forcing everyone to have to abide by what you think is right. You have no right to talk about treating others. Anyone that thinks differently than you is suddenly wrong and horrible. Somehow a filter is "racist" to you.. that really just shows how racist you truly are. Nobody here is treating anyone differently aside from you.

Using black guys as an example here:

With the filter: I don't see any black guys
Without the filter: I see black guys and just ignore them or block them.

What's the difference here? What changed at all with or without the filter? The only difference is with the filter it's easier for me to find what I actually know I want. How is it racist? That I have an attraction that's different than yours?

You're making this into such a massive problem that isn't even a problem. You're forcing everyone to try and think how you think then acting like people treat others horribly.. You're the one treating people horribly.

@JC It's hilarious isn't it? All the people that try to act like the race filter is suddenly racism, but the other filters are perfectly fine. It's all the "woke" people and "SJW" people that see "problems" everywhere they go. Problems that don't exist, but they get enough idiots believing it and turn it into a problem. They act like it's all in a fight for "equality", "social justice", etc but literally all it has been doing is giving more and more people massive social anxiety. Everything you say nowadays is wrong. Everything you say is harshly judged by every single person.

It's hilarious too that they only think the **filter** is what makes it racist. If you didn't use a filter and still are a white guy with an asian guy though, that's fine. But for some reason if you're a white guy with an asian guy you met using an asian filter somehow you're racist. There's literally no difference here aside from I don't see what I know I'm not attracted to.

There have been some trying to argue as well that like if you go to a bar you can't filter out the people.. yes you can, you just completely ignore them. If I don't feel attracted to someone because of their race, I just won't even notice them. That's not racist, that's attraction. Racist would be me going "HOW DARE THAT ASIAN COME INTO THIS BAR!"

"Equality" apparently nowadays means you're not allowed to have a choice to do what you want or like what you want. You have to abide by what someone else finds right. Like how we're all forced to abide by this "no ethnicity filter" purely because a handful of idiots think it's "racist" yet the vast majority see no problem with it. And that handful of people could just not utilize it if they don't like it.. instead they force their view upon everyone else and shout "EQUALITY!"

As a black man, this would mean I am a racist if I dl Asian porn?! Really! Google is one big 'filter engine'; is this racist?!

How insulting, to anyone who lived through Jim crow era! Such ignorance spews from the post modernist, Neo-Marxist agenda, and is perpetuated by the gullible left. They see racism everywhere!

With this logic, we shouldn't have a weight filter because that would be fat shaming ; or an age filter because that would be ageist. Or a sexual preference filter because.....well who knows. Heck, why not also get rid of photos. Better still, I vote to scrap this app, for it is inherently prejudicial.

Preference and choice are part of human nature -- get over it! It's what makes us unique and curious and desirable. Or should we cancel this too.

The hypocrisy of these people is nauseating and predictable!

@Bill, so that’s 5000 racists that want the filter back among how many million users worldwide?
Sorry, but gay men that think it’s okay to treat others differently based on their race are hypocrites if they ask for equal rights from straight society.
Jim Crow era is dead! Let’s not revive it.

I have been against this decision ever since they made it. It was done at a time when everyone was jumping on the anti-racism bandwagon.

The problem isn't the people searching for a specific race through the filters. People like what they like, whether it's a specific age, wt, ht, or yes, race.

This decision should not have been made unilaterally by Grindr. People who feel the ethnicity filter was racist could easily have opted out on their end by not listing their ethnicity on their OWN profile. That way their profile would not be shown to guys using an ethnicity filter. Don't want to be searched by a specific trait? Then don't list it on your profile and it can't be used to show your profile when someone searches using that filter.

As the complaints about this Grindr decision gets closer to 5,000 without a reversal or even a comment or statement, it is indicative that they don't want to admit they made a hasty & wrong decision based on what was happening at the moment. The fact that they removed the ethnicity filter does not make them high and mighty supporters of anti-racism anymore than using the filter makes people a racist.

Your paying customers want the filter back. It's time you should make that happen.

Cuál es la diferencia entre el filtro por raza y el filtro por edad, altura o tipo de complexión física?? Vistos desde un punto de vista extremo también son atributos que pueden servir para discriminar. Vivo en una ciudad de Argentina, me vinculo con gente de cualquier raza porque la atracción no pasa por la raza, pero particularmente siempre me atrajeron mucho los hombres de razas o estilos muy diferentes a los míos. Entonces, por qué considerar que todos usamos el filtro de raza como una forma de discriminación? Por el contrario, era una forma diferente de búsqueda, y como toda búsqueda en Grindr, es parte del juego. Era interesante contar con el filtro que eliminaron; solicito a Grindr su restitución. Gracias!!!

Removal of ethnicity filter discriminates against my personal sexual preference. If you remove the ethnicity filter based on percrieved discrimination (this is after all Grindr and not the bloody Times Magazine); stop ridiing the political and woke band wagon and brown nosing to said political pressure. If you want to truely take a stand against discrimination then remove ALL the filters as they too are discriminatory. Discrimination doesnt only apply to race. Your removal of the filter has discriminated against my preference and my freedom of choice.  So grow a backbone, drop the political insanity and either reinstate the filter or remove all filters.

Evidently critical thinking is for lazy people....and the wokie wokisters. Thanks grindr management for ur input!

You do realise Google is one big 'filter engine'

Why don't you save us all, and go back to ur village....they miss u.

Sex apps have destroyed the art of in person dating and socializing. Killing the gay bar business. Why go out when U can get dick on demand? lol Filters are for lazy people. Embrace the hunt. And time to move passed race filters and age filters. Just swipe right or left ya lazy folks! ;-) jeeze!

Grindr is awesome. I found the luv of my life

Grindr Xtra used to have etnicy search parameters and now it doesn't. I can get some people will brings racism but it is irrelevant. You like what you like for example if I don't like white people I am not going to like them more because their profile shows it means I am going to spend more time blocking profiles that I don't like than actuality focusing on the people I am really interested. I am paying more to see more profiles which at the end it doesn't matter because i am still going to be limited to my personal distance limits and be able to block unlimited profiles. I am just one person but I am seriously discontinue paying for my grindr extra since I am paying for unlimited profile all the way to Japan and unlimited blocking people.

Grindr could not possibly reinstate the ethnicity filter because they have backed themselves into a corner. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. They removed it thinking it was some kind of symbol they cared about racism. So if they add it back, have they stopped caring about racism?? Best thing to do as a community, just stop paying for premium features. Vote with every dollar.

So I tweeted GRINDR ans Jeff Bonforte, CEO of GRINDR about this and both are so unprofessional neither bothered to respond, just shows how much they respect users of GRINDR.
Its time someone came up with a new APP and that GRINDR was closed down and they do not respect any of theie users. Jeff Bonforte to me is the worst CEO I have come across.

It’s disheartening to feel that the majority the comments are heartfelt sincere and want the ethnicity filter returned... and yet Grindr does not respond. The point of this is ... if you like it, then use it, and guess what... if you don’t like it... then you DONT use it. Pure and simple.

Also... I am concerned at the comment below that said fake transgender profiles are being put on the site by Grindr. It’s interesting that I do feel a large influx of these type of profiles. As a gay man I’m not looking for a female. Again my choice. I truly hope this is not happening.. that would be very disingenuous and extremely cynical on the part of Grindr if indeed this is true. I also will not be renewing my subscription to Grindr since I can go on ADAM4ADAM and filter anything I want. And look for the exact kind of person I’m actually sexually attracted to. Did Grindr actually forget why the app became popular to begin with? COME ON GRINDR..... STEP UP.

I personally do not feel that removing this feature was beneficial in any meaningful way except to make users of this app frustrated.

There are various studies that have been conducted regarding race and sexual preferences. The Wikipedia article "Race and sexuality" has a lot of good information, but there are various other resources I would encourage people to read.

The following is quoted from the wikipedia article:
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Just because someone isn't sexually attracted to someone of Asian origin does not mean they wouldn't want to work, live next to, or socialize with him or her, or that they believe they are somehow naturally superior to them.

This suggests that people find it possible to view larger systemic racial preference as problematic, while viewing racial preferences in romantic or sexual personal relationships as not problematic. Researchers noted that racial preferences in one's own dating life were generally tolerated and that calling them "racist" is not a commonly accepted view.
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I would encourage Grindr to seriously look into this further, as it seems this was initially done as a publicity stunt as opposed to actually combating racism.

Forget it...grindr doesn't care !

If they did, they would have the courage and respect, to address the concerns of their customers.

Instead they hide behind some woke, social justice warrior, ideology which is corrupting the very place where we come to have fun and escape this academic nonsense.

Grindr, why don't you stop cowering behind your ivory monitors and address the people!

You know, the very people customers, who pay your salaries.

Im totally agree with you, I hope our requests going toward Customer Services or Head Quarters, we already pay for a great service and they limit us

We would appreciate your quickly response

Grinder is shit with out ethnicity filter I'm going to stop using grinder

Im going to stop pay for unlimited grinder if we don't get back the ethnicity filter soon grinder is no good with out it it sucks