Why your swiping behavior on dating apps might be racist
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance,” sociologists Jennifer Lundquist, Celeste Vaughan Curington and Ken Hou-Lin show how online dating sites exacerbate racial divisions.They found that race-related “preference” filters on digital dating platforms help foster racist attitudes — especially toward black women. “Filtering out people based on race is a normal practice on dating apps,” Lundquist told The Post. “The idea of having racial preferences is unacceptable and illegal in any other arena,” she added.