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Why is it OK for online daters to block whole ethnic groups?
The Guardian ^ | September 29, 2018 | Chris Stokel-Walker

Posted on 10/02/2018 4:54:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Sinakhone Keodara reached his breaking point last July. Loading up Grindr, the gay dating app that presents users with potential mates in close geographical proximity to them, the founder of a Los Angeles-based Asian television streaming service came across the profile of an elderly white man. He struck up a conversation, and received a three-word response: “Asian, ew gross.”

He is now considering suing Grindr for racial discrimination. For black and ethnic minority singletons, dipping a toe into the water of dating apps can involve subjecting yourself to racist abuse and crass intolerance.

“Over the years I’ve had some pretty harrowing experiences,” says Keodara. “You run across these profiles that say ‘no Asians’ or ‘I’m not attracted to Asians’. Seeing that all the time is grating; it affects your self-esteem.”

Style blogger Stephanie Yeboah faces the same struggles. “It’s really, really rubbish,” she explains. She’s faced messages that use words implying she – a black woman – is aggressive, animalistic, or hypersexualised. “There’s this assumption that black women – especially if plus sized – go along the dominatrix line.”

As a result, Yeboah went through phases of deleting then reinstalling many dating apps, and now doesn’t use them any more. “I don’t see any point,” she says.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chat; dating; onlinedating; teenypeeny
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To answer the question in the title, people will decide who they date and marry based on their preferences, not what anyone else thinks is right. I think women from some races are more attractive than women from other races.

It's terrible that someone did not want to sodomize or be sodomized by Mr. Keodara because he is Asian. All races should have an equal chance to get AIDS.

1 posted on 10/02/2018 4:54:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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First world SJW problem.


2 posted on 10/02/2018 4:56:29 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: reaganaut1

“... the gay dating app that presents users with potential mates ...”

Mates? Huh?


3 posted on 10/02/2018 4:57:07 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: reaganaut1

Any time they want.

Government forces us to integrate, but our privates lives are still ours and we don’t have to have personal relationships using the Affirmative Action process.


4 posted on 10/02/2018 4:58:45 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: reaganaut1

Youre a racist if you dont want to sleep with me.


5 posted on 10/02/2018 5:00:35 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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I do not believe in free choice when it comes to whether or not we should date. But then again I exercised free choice in deleting lots of gay dating apps that allowed people to express a preference about who they date.

These people. Go figure.

6 posted on 10/02/2018 5:02:25 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: reaganaut1

A court WILL declare it illegal for dating sites to allow people to have preferences of ANY kind.


7 posted on 10/02/2018 5:02:29 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: reaganaut1

Tribes of whatever description historically ALWAYS prefer to keep things in-house; grandstanding exceptions only serving to prove the rule.


8 posted on 10/02/2018 5:05:40 PM PDT by tomkat
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We are all bigots then aren’t we?

I’m a white man, have only dated white women, and married a white woman.

Is it bigoted if black men and women prefer someone black?

Do they really want to go there?

In our intimate lives we are expected to perform an affirmative action process? What the heck is the complaint here?


9 posted on 10/02/2018 5:07:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Choosing someone for a personal relationship is one of the last areas where it’s okay to express a preference in their appearance. You don’t have to be mean about it, but people express themselves in different ways.

You cannot make somebody want you because it’s politically correct.
That would be the definition of a ‘Mercy F*ck’.
Most people want real passion in that bedroom, not real pity.


10 posted on 10/02/2018 5:07:30 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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Love, and/or marriage are not “Affirmative Action” issues. It is personal preference.


11 posted on 10/02/2018 5:07:31 PM PDT by FrankR (You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
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How long before Democrats impose Affirmative Action Dating?

For every 2 white people you 'date' you have to 'date' a black, Hispanics, Asian, or 'other'.

Why do GRINDER and Mr. Keodara 'discriminate' against heterosexuals?

Some people don't like to 'date' Asians. Get over it. Find people with an Asian fetish. I'm sure they're out there.

Wasn't it homosexuals who told us to stay out of their bedrooms?

12 posted on 10/02/2018 5:09:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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“Some people don’t like to ‘date’ Asians. Get over it.”

And some Asians don’t like to date other Asians-—the Chinese and the Vietnamese,for example———and I’m sure this is true in other races.

We like what we like.

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13 posted on 10/02/2018 5:13:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: reaganaut1

Just because someone does not find someone from a group of people attractive doesn’t mean they hate them. I’m not attracted to old people or children or men, but don’t hate any of those groups.


14 posted on 10/02/2018 5:18:20 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Its not the New York Times, its the RACIST New York Times. Please call them that, they've earned it.)
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pretty soon you won’t be able to reject ugly people or fat people either.


15 posted on 10/02/2018 5:20:46 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Its not the New York Times, its the RACIST New York Times. Please call them that, they've earned it.)
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Why not?

If I even cared to date, which I do not, I would block people for a whole host of reasons. Its called PREFERENCES and everyone has them.

If this is not acceptable, where are people saying that women can no longer turn down men who ask them out if they dont meet all their preferences? And yup its different since men are the askers 80% of the time.


16 posted on 10/02/2018 5:21:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: reaganaut1

Doesnt section 230 protect dating apps from this kind of lawsuit?


17 posted on 10/02/2018 5:24:21 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: reaganaut1

I had an online friend I played Warcraft with. He was dating a girl with a gay best friend. The gay best friend hit on him incessantly. He repeatedly told him he wasn’t gay, wasn’t bi and didn’t want to go on a date with him.

The response? You’re homophobic!

It’s going to get to the point where you have to sodomize someone in public or let them sodomize you to prove you aren’t homophobic.


18 posted on 10/02/2018 5:27:37 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: reaganaut1

Everybody has their brand. Its nobody else’s business what each person is attracted to. Nobody “owes” it to anybody else to find them attractive.


19 posted on 10/02/2018 5:28:48 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: reaganaut1

The list of reasons why people will buy sex robots is just getting longer and longer.


20 posted on 10/02/2018 5:34:41 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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