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Dear Grindr!
I will no longer be using your platform due how you gotten rid of the Ethnicity tabs based upon the high volume of White/Caucasian men who were the ones complaining about how it was "racist" or in fact are mainly the racist ones! Speak to those who are actually of other ethnic/cultural backgrounds or how you have been used to BAME! Someone who like me who is of South Asian heritage whose community, culture, and ethnicity ranges of multiply countries used that tab to meet, connect, engage, find, date, talk too, and create a sense of community groups regardless of their location. Rather than having to see the the overwhelming seas of White/Caucasian Faces and Bodies, that tab helped us find others like us within our community to not only meet in person for whatever their reason was! The fact that tab helped us connect with others from our cultural backgrounds, language, religious beliefs, and communities to help support one another. Because if you live in a some random city in the. middle of nowhere, and you go on that app to find someone who can speak the same/similar language as your ethnicity, it creates a sense of hope. That tab opened doors for many who were looking talk to someone who would understand their similarities. By getting rid of that tab, that may seem you "helped" the BLM movement, but you really killed the voices for many of us who maybe South Asian, Middle Eastern, Etc backgrounds who were using it to meet, make friends, or even find someone they wanted to spend their life with; with the same cultural ethnicity and backgrounds! I can vouch that there AREN'T and STILL ISN'T Dating apps for the LGBTQIA+ South Asian/Middle Eastern/Asian/ETC Communities out there dedicated to help them find friends or be able to speak to someone who understands what their struggle is currently like! Thank You Grindr for listening to only the your white/Caucasian clients who are not the ACTUAL VOICE of minorities! The only way you'd fight racism would have been better patrolling the profiles that were being created, creating content that was forced to be watched to educated them on what sort of language they were using, because I can tell you this, I've had people message me saying some weird **** saying, "I want that .... insert ethnicity related *** comment here ...." and made me go, dude thats seriously wrong!
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I'm a POC and its really ****** me off that you got ride of the ethnicity filter when I was using it to meet people of my own personal ethnic background, when there is a sea of just white/caucasian guys! Has your company even bothered talking or even asking the majority of your POC clients how they actual felt about the tab? I swear to god, ever single news article i've seen, those who complained about the tab still being there, were ALL WHITE! Do you even know or UNDERSTAND what is like to be a POC whose dating options of meeting someone of the same CULTURE/ETHNICITY who can SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE, HAVE THE SAME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, who CAN UNDERSTAND THEM because WE COME FROM SIMILAR SITUATIONS is like! Talking to someone else who may not even come from the same ethnicity, or backgrounds would not AT ALL UNDERSTAND the struggle, how our lives have no parallels! There are POC who actual like to meet someone from their own background just as much there are POC who are wanting to meet other people from other different backgrounds BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR CHOICE! This isn't about preference or racism! This is clearly not understanding what the **** that small tab actually meant! Because if you're either South Asian or Middle Eastern; Hindu or Muslim; Vegetarian or Non Vegetarian you have very LIMITED number of apps you are able to use as an LGBTQIA+ community member! There are not apps for those who are of those backgrounds that have access to finding individuals of the same cultural background! P.s. I'm deleting my profile, my app, and NEVER coming back to grindr all because you "assumed that this will help stop racism on your app"