yes please Why would it be racist to search by ethnicity this is ridiculous restore the ethnicity filter thank you

Is Grindr acknowledging these votes and comments?

The real question is: is anyone actually listening to these comments? I don't see any action or an attempt at addressing all of the many concerns stated here. Grindr's silence is deafening.

Completely agree. I’m a white guy with a preference for mixed / black guys. I now struggle to locate them due to this. Ridiculous move. No longer want to pay for Grindr.

The ethnicity filter was very useful to those of us who are attracted to others of select ethnicities.
It is not racist to only be attracted to black or asian or white person’s etc, it is simply a preference.

Without this filter there are grid spaces being occupied by people we may not be attracted to, therefore limiting our choice for finding dates or whatever else we may be looking for.

Hi, I’m a black guy and all I get is white men telling me I’m not they type and when I ask why they all say. I don’t do Black Men. It’s very hurtful. Put back ethnic choice. It sucks that you have to do it but you taking it down makes it hard for us. Are you being racist for not having ? As a black man I’m going to answer that for you. .Yes...not many apps for Blacks/melanin motivated humans. Step up or pull me in and I will help you build one for us. Be the first or step aside. Because to us your telling us, you get what you get and that’s never going to be fare to us, if your trying to sell love and happiness with a s

I am only into certain type guys, and really hate wasting time having to block
Guys who I will not ever be sexually into, under any condition. And let’s face it, this is a hook up app, we want dick a certain way, we are not trying to be nice. I hate having to tell 100 black guys I am not interested when I visit cities with large black populations.

Noone should be discriminated based on weight: please remove the weight filter.
Noone should be discriminated based on age: please remove the age filter.
Noone should be discriminated based on sexual orientation: please discontinue Grindr as an app.

(Sarcastic mode on)

Put the filter back.....just an overreaction to the PC crowd.....( yes i prefer Black guys)

Why was it ever removed? What harm or offence did it ever cause. Just makes perfect sense. We are all adults, capable of making our own decisions.

If ethnicity is restricted in filters then so too should be, age, weight, height etc. And not to do so is discrimination - using the same flawed logic!

In fact, there should be no options to add such descriptive details about a person in the profiles.

In fact there should be no photos.

In fact, why bother having anapp in the firstplace!

Get the point! Such policyis stupid, which leads to hypocrisy, leads to the absurd.

It's a 'dating' (lol) / sex app: wtf

If ethnicity is restricted in filters then so too should be, age, weight, height etc. And not to do so is discrimination - using the same flawed logic!

In fact, there should be no options to add such descriptive details about a person in the profiles.

In fact there should be no photos.

In fact, why bother having anapp in the firstplace!

Get the point! Such policyis stupid, which leads to hypocrisy, leads to the absurd.

It's a 'dating' (lol) / sex app: wtf

Why not have it as a button in setting if you want ethnicity to show or not, then you have a choice and the wokesters can stop crying!

Interesting, but we are not talking about algorithms we are talking about people. Who can make a decision one day and turn around and make a different decision in the next.... but still... my dick NOT getting hard.. and my Body NOT getting turned on... does NOT a racist make. Add the fact there is limited real estate on the phone. I need to get to the good stuff. If I’m looking for dairy products I’m not spending my time in produce. If I’m shopping for frozen pizzas I’m not going to be looking in wine and cheeses. The ethnicity filter is far less racist and far better. Because I can look for who I want to look for without deleting them permanently and another person can contact me as well making everybody far more accessible. But when I block them that’s it end of story final decision. So everyone I block is off the market and trust me I block a whole lot of people. Simply because there is no filter for my preferences. I’m not dating someone super taller than me I’m not dating someone much heavier than me I’m not dating someone who is much older than me and I’m not dating someone who does not turn me on physically or ethnically. Blocking someone is permanent.. locking in any racial bias i may have. The filter simply lets you look for what you are wanting that given moment. Far less obtrusive and far more open and fair. Its actually not as deep as you are trying to make it. It’s nobody’s business who I’m attracted to. And the fact that Grindr had this filter for so many years and still has so many filters means they understood right at the beginning there was nothing wrong with it. So why get rid of it now? No reason at all to my thinking.

I 100% agree with anonymous’ comment. I use grindr to find guys I’m sexually attracted to for a hook-up and the ethnicity filter helps me filter to guys that I am sexually attracted to. Plain and simple that’s all it is used for.. having to spend all the extra time going through profiles blocking out men who I am not physically attracted to or interested in has severely degraded grindr’s functionality and by removing the filter grindr has honestly kind-of become complicit in intensifying the divides we are currently seeing in America.. sorry, but forcing people to be sexually interested in someone they are not is entirely impossible. For those of you who don’t understand this, imagine someone forcing you as a gay male, to be interested in a women.. it just literally can not and will not happen. By forcing people to be sexually interested in people they are not, grindr is only contributing to intensifying ethnic divides.

This reminds me of a computer science example... a company developing an AI system to automatically monitor/flag racism and hate speech found that A Certain Ethnic Group was disproportionately getting flagged. It turns out that that group's "cultural" speech excessively drags their own and other people's ethnicity into conversations and places it doesn't have to be, and refers to people by their ethnicity, rather than their humanity.

So, the solution in our topsy-turvy "poltically correct" world was to give that Certain Ethnic Group a free pass to be racist. After all, "it's not racism when we do it."

There, as here, we see an example that when a system is actually and demonstrably unbiased/unracist and does not allow others to be biased, it gets called "racist" and there are then demands to change it, to deliberately introduce bias into it to accommodate "socially acceptable" racism.

I work for a large and diverse organization and find there are many departments where the leader is of one particular ethnic group, and surprisingly all of their employees end up being that same group over time, even if they are such a tiny percentage of the overall workforce that it defies odds of millions to one should it be random. But again, "it's not racism when we do it" and this is "socially acceptable".

Bottom line is that we are almost all racist to at least some small degree by the actual and basic definition of the word, though we pin all sorts of other labels on it to legitimize it. It's just part of human nature that we have to fight against, as with much other negative baggage from our past.

It’s good to have conversations like this because it exposes what real racism is. I don’t think there’s a place for racism in our world or a place for racism on Grindr. But that’s not what we’re talking about. The comment below exposes a common problem. You are saying that a landlord should not see race and should not take ethnicity into account when renting out a property and you would be 100% correct and I stated that already in my earlier comment. But your ridiculous assertion Followed to its logical conclusión ,you are suggesting that the landlord be sexually attracted to everybody he rents to so as NOT to be racist. You are connecting sexual attraction and racism and racial bias in everyday life. The level of absurdity is beyond the scope of reality. But that’s what these discussions are for a right?

I’m not attracted to blondes for example. Blondes in general don’t get my juices flowing.. can’t even get erect. I skipped by most profiles with blondes and in fact block them out right. They are probably lovely people but that’s not what I’m looking for at the moment. So I block and I block and I block. Utter waste of time. But I have many friends who are blonde and I love them. They are wonderful people. I simply don’t want to get naked with them. Am I now biased against them? You’re over thinking something that is very simple. On an app like Grindr we are looking for sex, dates, hook ups, relationships, friends, all of the above. And you want me to pass over your profile regardless of whether I’m interested in you. Which only causes me to look at the profile scrunch my face and say no fucking way... BLOCK... Wouldn’t it be better to just skip that part and go straight for the guys I’m actually attracted to you “sexually”... I’m not selling a car, I’m not renting a home, I’m not a mortgage or loan officer at the bank, and I’m not looking to hire anyone for my company. Using ethnicity or racial bias to make a determination on who to hire would be wrong. But to follow your logic I am now supposed to be sexually attracted to everyone I hire to prove I am not racist. Well that’s a whole other discussion and we already know how wrong that is to hire somebody because you want to have sex with them. So why are you suggesting it here with your absurd logic.

I’m just a dude looking for someone to lay in my bed next to me who I’m physically attracted to and makes my dick hard and my blood boil. That’s it pure and simple reading anything past that is just missing the point completely and like previously stated exposes your own racism and racial insecurity. PLEASE REINSTATE THE ETHNICITY FILTER ON GRINDR so that I don’t have to continuously block those I am not interested in NOR WILL I EVER BE. And also if you want me to continue to use Grindr as a dating gay male platform the filter needs to be reinstated as of now I find Grindr extremely annoying for that reason. That’s it pure and simple.

"No matter how you look at it, an ethnicity filter on my apartment block does not cause racism, it actually helps it. Some landlords just are not comfortable with certain races as tenants. It'd be like saying you're a horrible landlord because you don't want tenants with wide hips. Every landlord has tenants they prefer and you never really know why."

We all have these biases and prejudices... myself included. Most of us have eyes and ears and end up unconsciously sorting, preferring and rejecting people. I guess only those like Helen Keller can be completely unbiased.

I am no better in this regard than anyone else. I just don't expect anyone else to promote or foster my biases and prejudices.

This "Missed Connection" person commenting saying: "How is this different than a landlord being attracted to tenants of a certain ethnicity? Or employers to employees of a certain ethnicity?" Because these aren't attraction, they're a business. We're talking about affairs of the heart when it comes to dating. Being a landlord you're receiving money from the person you allow in. The same applies to an employee. Either way, someone preferring one race over another is not racism, that's life. If you go to Japan they'll prefer Japanese people over an American. That's just how it is. Racism is when you flat out say or do something against that race. Like saying you think black people should be slaves again purely because they're black.. THAT is racism.

As for you saying to examine our own prejudices, you need to examine yours. You think you're some big white knight but you aren't. All you're doing is inciting racism and making it worse. You find "racism" in every little thing then blow it up until you get your way.

No matter how you look at it, an ethnicity filter does not cause racism, it actually helps it. Some people just are not attracted to certain races. It'd be like saying you're a horrible human being because you don't like someone with wide hips. Everyone has things they're attracted to and you never really know why.

How would having an ethnicity filter prevent deliberately hurtful messages from POS trolls? They wouldn't be using it or else they wouldn't find anyone to hate on.

We already have a blocking mechanism for them which works just fine and I hope was immediately applied to that one.