"Race is an antiquated social construct rooted in racism and to uphold white supremacy. You’ve got to do better"

Nice to see you plant the flag of racism even in this thread Steven El Truinbador..

"The burden to "block" racist users should not fall on those targeted"

Idiotic in the extreme. It is for victims to report it. No victims means no problems and free speech being suppressed by patronising assumption.

"Second, profiles with "no ____" should not, I think, be tolerated when they are exclusionary on the basis of race or, for that matter, body type.

The ignorance expressed here is unbelievable. This site is about quick hook-ups based upon physicality and things like "no fatties/blacks/oldies" are clearly in that very context of physicality to save everyone from wasting time. If my race, age, body type falls outside of a users tastes whilst all other fall within I am grateful that they took the trouble to say so.thus saving me time, hassle and rejection.

Hi, in english, Indian people may be people from India or native people from Brazil or North America. So as i am Goan, from India always lived in Portugal. You translate indian to INDIO(as native people from Americas. An indian from India, for portuguese speakers, should be written as INDIANO.
Everyone who lives here and reads my profile, see INDIO, in spite on INDIANO.It is completely different. I hope you understand this, as this is also a prejudice issue.
I have written to you twice, and i didn't know you would solve this by email.

Since there is a way for Xtra users to filter people by race, then it would be helpful for us to filter guys who are interested in the race that we identify with. For example, I am Asian. I would like for the grid to show users who are interested in Asian guys. This way, people can see others who are mutually interested.

Why? So you can avoid some races/ethnicities?! Why would you need to do that?

Why should race or ethnicity matter to you? Unless, of course, you're prejudging guys based on this.

But let the user choose whether they want to show or hide it on their profile, just like age.

I watched your video on racist on Trindr. I found it interesting how you focused on what I found to be not so much racism but instead a person preference. Like me for instance. I’m an older Bear. I’m a very large man. I’m very confident in who I am. I know most or a lot of men on Grindr would rather be with twinks and I’m ok with that. I have hit on men who have been blunt enough to say that they are not into my type of guy. I’m cool with that and left it at that. I’m into black men. And have been very frank about it too people. By your video I would be racist. However, I think your video is going a bit to far, to deal with this issue. Your blurring preference and racist ideology. The use of words to demean people Yes is Racist. But to say a person is well spoken is not racial. It’s an observation. If that person said “your well spoken for a black guy.” Yes racist! And not being into a particular group of people is also a preference. So people are not into Bears as some are not into Black, or asian or even Jewish men as I am. That’s a preference. But if that person who’s not into black men because they are lazy, racist. But if they simply say “ sorry pI’m not into black men.” Or “I’m not into Bears!” That’s pointing out a preference not an insult. I think these people are being over the top taking offense over something that’s really a small thing

No. Let them speak their truth. Then, I, an others, can avoid them.

I'd rather know than have to learn in an awkward situation.

You got my vote. This bill just happened to me the other day. Everyone was telling me I should have reported him, but he blocked me after sending an extensive note, using the n word numerous times. I have receipts. I guess we aren't allowed to post them here.

Issue is, a majority of users don't list their ethnicity.

I'd vote to remove the "race" filter altogether.

Translating..."I'm racist and want to make being racist easier with the click of a button"

Let someone know what you're into without having to ignore someone you're not interested in.

Please ask users: What is your type - ethnicity, etc.
People who are that specific type should be able to have a filter to view users who actually are interested in your ethnicity. This can wave out a lot of time and hours spent
countless asking people if they're interested without a response back, etc. At least you know that race wasn't an issue to the people that you see. I hope this makes sense as well.

This needs to be addressed in the gay community and not just Grindr. Grindr is complicit in ostracism of lgbtq people of color. This feature is mostly used by white cis gay men in my experience, not only ****** but even if they are looking for friendship. Race is an antiquated social construct rooted in racism and to uphold white supremacy. You’ve got to do better.

******* RACIST!

This feature allows me to search for men who are looking for my race. This also avoids the issue of those that are not looking for men of my race and the embarrassment that can sometimes occur after someone decides that they want to be racist ***. Sad but true.

As a dark skinned man, I couldn’t agree more. It’s about time we have a mechanism to make people aware of a racist profile. Blocking isn’t enough because they’ll still stay and harass all the others. Racism is not something to play with. We’re already a minority as gay man, we shouldn’t feel unsafe on Grindr

Ethnicity should be made free. Very soon you'll lose to new apps

As a user in Malaysia, I would love if I can choose the race/ethnicity.. In Malaysia, we have Malay, Indian, Chinese, etc. Some of us, we have our own choice. For example, as a Malay in Malaysia, I prefer to hang out with Malay gay.