There was a profile in Grindr that I saw. His profile name is "Hot Israeli". He is 35 yo, 5'11" and 186 pounds. He classify his race as Middle Eastern. The only other thing he wrote besides his stats is "Not Into Asians and bottoms"So I messaged him and this was our conversation online:
Me: How would you feel if people writes "Not into Jews" or whatever you are. Your thinly veiled hatred for Asians and bottoms is showing. Looks like the Nazi failed to teach you tolerance.
Hot Israeli: Say what you want man. I'm not trying to be right but when it comes to sex, asians and bottoms are a turn off for me. That's it. We are talking on sexual preference, not religion.
Me: You stereotype Asians to be one way sexually the same way the Nazi stereotyped Jews. I get that you have preference. It is the way you phrase it that makes Asians look like the scum of earth. "Prefer white, middle eastern, latin, black tops" sounds better. Just saying.
Hot Israeli: Listen, I'm not into asian as if you notice that most of white, latin or black are not into them too. So if you have a problem with what I write, don't look.
Me: Whatever. I expected a race/religion who suffered the holocaust to be more tolerant. Remember next time you see or hear an anti-semitic remark that you are just like those bigots.
Hot Israeli: Whatever.
As you can see, even the oppressed can be bigots too. You would think they would know better but evidently, this Jew does not.
3 comments:
To be honest with you, I think you were guilty. Did it ever occur to you grindr is probably not the best place to meet moral and intellectual individuals? The whole idea is to find quick hook up partners, there isn't a lot of thought behind things. That guy clearly didn't want a debate about his preferences.
You are probably right that Grindr is not the best place to meet moral and intellectual people. Clearly this guy is not.
I just want to point it out in my blog that even the oppressed can be bigots too. Perhaps this reminder will help us all strive to be better tolerant people to others who are different from us.
Perhaps you are defending him because you find him nice looking. haha. But still, it is not an excuse to be insensitive. Be it in Grindr. Be it whether he wants to discuss it or not. Surely if i say some insensitive anti semitic remark in Grindr, somebody will point it out too.
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