Its not discriminatory - Its rather anti-discriminatory to remove a feature that could be used for targeting individuals for violence, catfishing, etc. based upon race. The criminal law imposes a legal duty on Grindr to prevent their services from being used to perpetrate hate crimes as defined under federal law, which means after discovery that the feature was being used for illegal discriminatory purposes, it essentially had to go. Every app is probably going to be the same on this point in the near future.

Deleting the ethnicity search is short sighted and discriminatory. I used it to find a ethnic group I am attracted to and I can’t because you assume it is a radio thing to search what what someone likes. Whoever decided to delete this function is so lost in this woke society. To assume everyone uses it for “hate” is so ignorant. Ever stop to think that people use to find people they are attracted to? It is possible to be or not to be attracted to races other than your own. If this is so hard to understand than ask every gay person why they are not attracted to the opposite ***! Or is that next, you’ll tell me that I have to be attracted to the opposite *** because someone might get offended .
I would like the search back. If not, I understand this app is a business and I and many other people will take our business elsewhere

Thank you for your time

Dude please. Been saying this for years. We're not Asian, we have our own bubble to mark on all documents now. We're our own people.

I read recently that this feature maybe removed on the grounds of racial abuse, This nonsense. I am white and I prefer Asians (sexually). This is not racsism it's a ****** preference. It's the only reason I ever buy Xtra and without it I would never buy Xtra again. So keep the feature in so we can filter to find our ****** preference

Hi. I think you're making a big mistake by eliminating the ability to screen by ethnicity. I suppose you mean well, but the reality is that most POCs use that screen to eliminate the possibility of the very racist abuse that your company says it's necessary to remove the filter to avoid. White South Africans are *very" racist, and if you live in a border racial residential area, you will get far more nonblack people than black people. You're basically exposing us to the potential for racist abuse by doing something that you think should result in the opposite. Did you all consult POCs in various countries before working to remove that filter? Or even POCs at your company who primarily associate with other POCs for safety reasons? Every black-identified black person I know is working, since the announcement, on trying to create other ways in social media to contact like minded people since Grindr is making it harder, especially during these lockdowns. I think you should reconsider the filter decision or make it in a country by country basis. I have lived in South America and Europe as well as the USA and South Africa. There are numerous reasons, that are safety related which limit who we can take around our neighborhoods, and removing the ability to meet people with that in mind has the potential to make things go pearshaped. So yeah, please reconsider. Thanks.

Most of us find the filters useful and why should you want to remove our right to choose what we want?
Also, why waste your time on people who don't like your ethnic type? Let them filter you out. You deserve better than them.

You're over-complicating something that most of us are perfectly happy with. So what if physical race is more social construction than actually physical? We're fine using the broad ethnic categories and find them useful.
Please get a life. Go away!

We want the ethnicity filter please. Essential

It is 2020. Racism has never been acceptable and it is especially not acceptable now. This feature literally enables racism and discrimination on an app that claims to be about community. Racial “preferences” = racism! These preferences are rooted in racism Because they are literally saying people of certain races are not worth of having *** with them. This disproportionally affects black, brown, and Asian men when the goal should be a safe space of all gay and ******** men/trans people. If people feel so strongly about these “preferences” they can take the time to sift through people’s profiles that to find the ones they find attractive.

The fact that this app seeks to make more money by prosper wanting to discriminate against certain ethnicities is appalling!

Hello,

I recently read an article that you were going to remove listing and filtering ethnicities.

I support anti-racism movements, but an individual on a dating application has personal choice of what they are attracted to on a number of levels - levels which are independent of racism and are not controllable, but inherent. If you remove ethnicity, can you not make the case to remove height, age and any other description that someone can filter you out by? Under your proposal of removing ethnicity, you have to remove every filter that could eliminate someone being judged by their physical traits, behaviours and conditions.

In fact, you will be making the app less effective for your clients and cause people to place their preferences in the write-up, which may come across more exclusionary and offensive. I fear you will frustrate your end consumer and create further offensive reactions as you are forcing more transparent rejection.

Racism is about keeping or putting someone down based on race, this is about someone’s individual personal attraction that is not intended to cause harm. it’s not saying it’s better or worse , it’s a fact to which one can decide with how they want.

I think someone filtering ethnicity discreetly is better than forcing frustrations, reactions and write ups that may further cause a offensive reaction - warranted or not.

To support anti-racism cures, I would do something to educate or change perceptions than to remove a physical description. Removing ethnicity won’t make some one suddenly consider someone they did not consider before. It will just create more direct hurt.

Just a thought

Your comments are exactly why these filters should be removed.

It right

How about don’t take away the race filter? It’s not like you have paying customers who specifically have an XTRA subscription to find the group of people they’re most interested in. Having a preference in certain types of men isn’t racist.

I find that the fact the you have the ‘Tribes’ option as a free option and not race is not right. As a black man who lives in a mainly white area, I struggle with connecting with people. I face discrimination from local profiles and sometimes really racist responses. I believe this is now a change that is needed. I am sure I can get the votes on this via social media, as many would agree and have faced similar issues too.

DO NOT REMOVE THE ETHNICITY FILTER.

If am Asian black white or whatever. I want to be able to search for people who’s in to my ethnicity. This Is not racist it just makes it more easy to find people for a possible match.

I have read Grinders comments about removing the 'ethnicity' in solidarity with the black lives matter campaign. I think this is a terrible idea. Ethnicity does not equate to racism. Far from encouraging freedom of choice, it actually limits freedom of choice and would also serve to isolate many people and groups. You cannot and should not be able to prescribe physical preferences or force people to conform to your ideas. People (black, white, asian, old, young, transgender or bi) are entitled to choose who they interact with. This is a fundamental freedom in any free society.

I’ve just read that you are going to get rid of ethnicity preferences in your next update. Please do not. There may be some that use this based on their own racism but there are millions of us that don’t and use it in a positive way and pay for xtra to use this facility. If this he goes then I may consider using other apps instead.

Using this filter does NOT equal racist behavior. I have only been attracted to latin And Asian guys since I can remember. I’m white. Since pre-school this is who I gravitate toward— Not white and not black. I have tons of friends of all races/ethnicities but my attraction is only with latin/Asian. Without this filter I have a hard time getting to these guys in Atlanta. :-(

There IS a huge difference between racism and predilection. I don’t think GrNDR should cowtow to the latest trend or be misguided to believe this is a form of racism in this current movement.

Ethnicity filters are being removed. This may lead to other filters being removed (weight, body type, etc). With this we need easier blocking capabilities, particularly the ability to block multiple accounts at once from the grid.

If users have to see the same faces they aren't interested in, and it is tedious to block them to remove them from the grid, they will move to other apps.

Make it a xtra feature as those filters once were.