• wampus@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Racially limited dating sites exist for other ethnicities – Rezfox for FN, JDate for Jewish people, AsianDating for asian people, etc. Some of those have been lauded on the CBC even, so racially restrictive dating site options aren’t new, nor are they inherently wrong.

    The CBC choosing to use hacked private information is concerning. It’s clearly information that was obtained through the blatant violation of peoples privacy – a crime – and they’re naming people in such a way as to encourage repercussions for the individuals they’re highlighting. Admittedly, their views are disgusting if they align with nazi shit, but it feels wrong all the same. Like this isn’t a govt ‘insider’ who has a conscience and wants to see gov actions made public as a check/balance; it’s a third party that stole peoples private data and then the cbc blasted it out to the public. If your bank got hacked, does the cbc get to report out your SIN number and questionable purchases?

    Even more, the headline is click baiting in light of the actual findings they note in the article. Three military people out of… 500 hundred in Canada. Five hundred. I’d imagine that the other racially restricted sites have far more members. And their members would likely be better, cause there’s no stigma about joining/openly wanting to date within your race for other races – with white people it’s often the dregs of the gene pool, because we seem to hold white people to a different standard.

    Also, even though I disagree with the white power shit, Canada’s local population has serious headwinds for dating/having families. The only demo of locals that’s growing are FN – all of our population growth comes via immigration, which is an absurd situation to be in for a whole slew of reasons. We’re a country where family lines go to whither and die. Minus the hate stuff, any tool/app/thing that can help any of our demographics on this front, is likely a net good in the long run. Like if you want equity, why not focus on equity of people/cultures immigrating – especially when such a thing dictates which groups ‘grow’ in the country.

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      9 hours ago

      Hey your take seems reasonablish if you consider the website in question to be equivalent to the ones you listed. But are they? The hate seems pretty woven into the fabric of this website.

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        It probably comes down to being the majority race/ethnicity/whatever. I’d guess a Japanese-only site in Japan would fill with raging bigots pretty quickly, too. Like, there’s no innocent reason to go on WhiteDate when every dating app is the white dating app. (And FWIW JDate allows gentiles)

        Journalists using data obtained by other people’s illegal acts is nothing new, and has saved democracy’s bacon in some cases. Nor is whatever news program doxxing wrongdoers.

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          I think it’s worse than it just being the dominant culture. The platform talks about europid vision, allows people to select “fascist” and “national socialist” as their political leanings. And it basically presents great replacement theory as the reason it’s needed.

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        8 hours ago

        I’ve honestly no clue, personally, as I’ve only used fairly main stream options. I don’t know, for example, if the racist stuff on that white site is more or less extreme than the racist stuff on the other sites.

        But I mean, jdate is in that list. And Jews aren’t exactly a tolerant people these days, what with Israel’s genociding and racial superiority narratives being so tied to that ‘race’ etc. And there are lots of Asians who’re openly racist towards non-Asian (or even other asians!) people too. And I mean, FN are often openly hostile towards white people, “colonials”. By percentage, given the white site had like 500 people on it, which is like less than 0.001e-5% of Canada’s population, I really wouldn’t want to make a wager as to which of these racially segregated dating sites is more racist to those outside their target demo.

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          But I mean, jdate is in that list. And Jews aren’t exactly a tolerant people these days, what with Israel’s genociding and racial superiority narratives being so tied to that ‘race’ etc. And there are lots of Asians who’re openly racist towards non-Asian (or even other asians!) people too. And I mean, FN are often openly hostile towards white people, “colonials”.

          I don’t think you should be making generalisations about Jews based on the actions of Israel.

          Your comments about racism in other communities are a deflection. Because we aren’t talking about what race is least racist, we’re talking about hatred baked into dating platforms. This is a platform that talks about europid vision, presents great replacement theory as a justification for its existence, and allows people to select fascist and national socialist as their political alignment. It’s a Nazi safe space, but Nazis don’t deserve to feel safe.