Yes I am strongly believe you should put the filter back remember what they say you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time also the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many

As someone who is black, I disagree.

By stating that you wouldn’t date a certain group, you are essentially claiming that their superficial qualities would make it impossible for you to form an emotional connection – which is, in fact, prejudice.

Not dating someone on the basis of hair color sounds silly..yet time and time again, racial preferences are shrugged off as a legitimate and immutable aspect of sexual individuality, to the point where questioning them is demonized as threatening someone’s personal expression with uptight, irrational political correctness.

To clarify, inclusionary racial preferences can be racist as well. Saying that you only want to date a specific race is equally problematic because it defines someone by their ethnicity.

Assuming that someone’s racial background gives them more desirable qualities reflects harmful histories of colonialism and the exotification and fetishization that went along with it.

Basically, if someone’s skin color alone is enough to make you attracted or not attracted to them, take a step back and think about your life choices. Racial preferences aren’t a celebratory, untouchable birthright transmitted to you in the womb.

They aren’t a demarcation of any kind of fundamental individuality or any of the things that make you you.

It’s learned cultural bias, plain and simple.

You can’t possibly claim that you know for a fact that every single person of a given race or ethnicity has no chance of falling in love with you based entirely on physical appearance.

Many people will use the “exposure” excuse as a justification for their preferences, asserting that they have very little experience interacting with a certain group.

If anything, that makes your argument even more misguided because you are basically admitting that you’ve never been given the opportunity to try and form relationships with anyone from that community, so how do you even have enough information to “know” that you won’t be attracted to people that you’ve never met?

Implied universalism is not only biased, but dangerous in the ways that it allows racial and cultural hierarchies to persist while enabling the individual to avoid any self-introspection of the factors that led to the formation of this perspective.

The idea of “cherry picking” races to somehow magically have an ideal partner or relationship due to the racial dynamic alone needs to stop. Not only is it unreliable and illogical, but it propagates and validates oppression.

TL;DR:

Racial preferences reduce people to their ethnicity and reinforce racial hierarchies by insinuating that race alone is a powerful enough factor to negate everything else that someone has to offer.

Claiming that someone is unworthy of associating with you because of race and hiding behind the flimsy excuse of sexual tastes or lack of hypothetical romantic chemistry is racist.

It’s true that anyone can have undesirable traits and you shouldn’t feel obligated to be with a person solely for inclusivity’s sake, but that doesn’t mean that those traits are ethnically specific.

You can’t know whether or not you have chemistry with someone unless you get to know them.

Grindr I know you guys meant well but this was a very poor decision. It’s nothing wrong with a person preferring a certain ethnicity. Would you please but that filter back ?

This app is supposed to be finding people WE want to do stuff with(date, talk, hookup, etc.) but the ethnicity filter being gone hinders that. How are y’all helping spread equality or whatever if you’re blocking us from being able to choose our PERSONAL PREFERENCES. Also y’all blocking POC from finding each other easier!

Hope to increase race search

Since the omission of the ethnicity type option, I know only see very few of my preferred type which is black guys. Please bring this back

Everyone is tripping like just scroll if you want to find a particular race, or actually read their profile. My homepage has asian, black, white, romanian etc. all in the first 50 profiles. Im black myself and think not having this function is fine, cause at the end of the day I don't care who I meet, as long as they're attractive, fun, and not racist!

I don't like grinder no more now that they removed ethnicity filter thy need to bring it back I like jacked better than grinder jacked has ethnicity filter still I'm not going to be one of grinder paying customers no more if they don't bring back ethnicity filter I'm dune with grinder

"It irritates me to no end when tone-deaf white people make knee jerk decisions like this out of white guilt. This is nothing more than performance activism to make Ginder leadership and those who support the removal of the filter to feel good about themselves-like they've done something to combat racial inequality. In actuality, this policy is harmful to people of color like myself.

I'm in a majority white area and without this filter I am unfairly cut off from being able to connect with and find other gay people of color who share my background, language and culture. So inorder to make a few misguided, guilty white people feel better, I am forced to be limited to a sea of white profiles of people who are not interested in me or who only want to fetishize me for BBC.

It doesn't make sense. If Grinder really wanted to create a safe space for all, then it would 1) replace the incorrectly named "ethnicity" stat with the correct term "race"; 2) restore the filter; and, 3) give each user the option of rather or not they want to allow other users to be able to filter their profile (in or out) by race.

Each user should be able to opt in or out of having their profile filtered by race from other users. That way the personal preference people can opt in to find each other, the guilty white people can opt out to feel good about their performance activism, and all the rest of us won't be harmed in the crossfire.

Its almost like Grinder is intentionally creating a hostile environment to drive people of color away from the app."

Dear Sir, You have some very valid points. I am a white guy and find myself in a similar position as you except I am typically attracted to Latino men. But I do not agree with your feelings that this decision was made out of White Guilt. I do not and will not feel guilty about the color of my skin nor do I expect anybody to feel guilty about their skin color. I have never mistreated a person because of the color of their skin nor will I. That is not the person who I am. So I ask you to consider that just because a person is white and I agree there are a lot who are racist, not all of us are. This same message applies to white people who feel that all black people are racist because you have encountered one who was. Peace and Best of Luck to all

It irritates me to no end when tone-deaf white people make knee jerk decisions like this out of white guilt. This is nothing more than performance activism to make Ginder leadership and those who support the removal of the filter to feel good about themselves-like they've done something to combat racial inequality. In actuality, this policy is harmful to people of color like myself.

I'm in a majority white area and without this filter I am unfairly cut off from being able to connect with and find other gay people of color who share my background, language and culture. Its not that I'm not attracted to some white guys too but I shouldn't be unfairly cut off from finding people who look like me. So inorder to make a few misguided, guilty white people feel better, I am forced to be limited to a sea of white profiles of people who are not interested in me or who only want to fetishize me for BBC.

It doesn't make sense. If Grinder really wanted to create a safe space for all, then it would 1) replace the incorrectly named "ethnicity" stat with the correct term "race"; 2) restore the filter; and, 3) give each user the option of rather or not they want to allow other users to be able to filter their profile (in or out) by race.

Each user should be able to opt in or out of having their profile filtered by race from other users. That way the personal preference people can opt in to find each other, the guilty white people can opt out to feel good about their performance activism, and all the rest of us won't be harmed in the crossfire.

Its almost like Grinder is intentionally creating a hostile environment to drive people of color away from the app.

As a person of colour, why am I suddenly being forced to only see pages of profiles of white guys? It’s like now I HAVE to sleep with white guys.

Feels colonial to me.......

I have been an Unlimited member for years, I shall now cancel my subscription until this is resolved

When I was 19 I was attacked by 2 guys. I was 100lbs they both were a couple of years older and about 150 to 170 lbs. They tried to rape me. I barely got someone to hear me making as much noise as possible. One was discovered to be a rapist the police were looking for. The other one was selling drugs that weren't pure at all. Both were dark skinned. To thus day if a black man flirts I might have a flashback and freak out about it. Once it was bad I was fighting for my life and the guy did not do anything wrong I just panicked when I was remembering that night.i wish the incognito were enhanced with better my type filters. I have deactivated my profile because I have aggressively propositioned to the point of blocking people who then make a new profile just to make sure I hope that we never meet up or else.

I absolutely agree. A language filter would be handy.

Grindr subscribers should cancel subscriptions to Grindr until we get what we originally paid for. ethnicities are not a racial issue its a personal preference. You cant expect us to be ok with paying more and getting less. I'm thinking a lawsuit is in the future unless we get compensated.

Filter people by country / state so its easyer to find people who speak your language and dont live outside your country by example when u live close to a border

Always problem with restore purchase unlimited please start alll e excellent please can I help me out please
Thank you

We are on a dating platform.
Its not racism. Than grindr have to remove age or weight filter.
For find my type its important. Because lot of people like asian, arabic, african, european or latin people.

Its important to find my type to have the possibility to filter for origin. Its not discrimination. Than grindr have also remove weights or age filter. This feature is important. We are on a dating platform and lot people like arabic, latin, asian or african people.

Restore the ethnicity filter or this will be my last membership I ever get again on grinder I'm dune with it grinder is no good with out it I don't like grinder at all know

If selecting ethnicity is considered racist, then selecting body type, height, what u identify also falls in that same bucket as it’s selecting someone by physical/cultural background. Saying no fats no fems fit only is the same thing. Another example of following the crowd out of fear...when will we learn.