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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.