Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports.
Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.
Because this doesn’t totally bely their opinion at all
I genuinely don’t understand the backlash to what I said but people clearly didnt like it.
I’m well aware not all Jews are Zionists. But I’m not surprised that the owner of grinder appears to be a Zionist because they are Jewish. I would be surprised if they were Muslim or Christian or something.
i bet it’s the combination of an implied conflation of a jewish owner and zionism and the fact that that it hasn’t been owned by a jewish person in quite some time.
it changed hands years ago to chinese ownership until the american gov’t forced the sale to blackrock/vanguard to protect the closeted republicans and cia/mossad interests.