#68: How important is race when deciding to swipe left or right on dating apps?

<p>The ladies discuss whether the ethnicity filter on dating apps is a blessing or a curse, how important a person’s race is when it comes to dating, and where the line is between preference, discrimination, and exotic objectification based on race when online dating. </p><p>Links mentioned in this episode</p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/dating-apps-grindr-ethnicity-filters-1047047/">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/dating-apps-grindr-ethnicity-filters-1047047/</a></p><p>(Article – Why Dating Apps Are Racist AF — With or Without Ethnicity Filters – Lester Fabian Brathwaite for Rolling Stone)</p><p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/09/redesign-dating-apps-lessen-racial-bias-study-recommends">https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/09/redesign-dating-apps-lessen-racial-bias-study-recommends</a></p><p>(Article – Redesign dating apps to lessen racial bias, study recommends – Melanie Lefkowitz for Cornell Chronicle)</p><p><a href="https://www.stylist.co.uk/opinion/hinge-dating-apps-black-women-ethnic-bias-filters/415937">https://www.stylist.co.uk/opinion/hinge-dating-apps-black-women-ethnic-bias-filters/415937</a></p><p>(Article – Online dating: “Why race filters create a safer experience for Black women on dating apps” – Habiba Katsha for Stylist)  </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/racial-bias-dating-apps">https://www.wired.co.uk/article/racial-bias-dating-apps</a></p><p>(Article – Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased? – Thomas McMullen for Wired)</p><p><a href="https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/race-filters-dating-apps-coded-compliments-explained-bame-users-492497">https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/race-filters-dating-apps-coded-compliments-explained-bame-users-492497</a></p><p>(Article – ‘Race filters’ on apps and coded compliments make online dating hard for people of colour – Maighna Nanu for iNews)</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/07/it-racist-have-preference-whom-you-date">http