Discussion: Racist Grindr messages an Aussie man received for being of..

Dalai

...aboriginal Australian descent

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Australia. It’s not all sunshine, sandy beaches and koala bears. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor is a 23-year-old Yolngu man. The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Because of his ethnic origin, McGregor says he regularly receives racist messages from guys on Grindr. Now, he’s speaking out about it.

“There’s a hierarchy in the gay community,” McGregor tells the Sydney Morning Herald. “The white attractive male with the European background is at the top of the pyramid. The further you are away from that ethnicity or body image the more you’re shunned in the gay community.”

“I’d like to say surprises me in this day and age that so many negative stereotypes exist regarding Aboriginal people, but it’s something I’ve grown up with,” he says. “I remember when I moved to Darwin and students in my class, who were barely 13 years old, were making offensive racial remarks about Aboriginal people. In my experience, people need to be taught from a young age that racism isn’t acceptable.”

Look at these:

Omg

Bet these guys thought that they were being funny by spewing such vile things.

I'm actually so over humanity.

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DevonDreams

Grindr is terrible.. What else is new?

Nikolai.

What does wog mean?

Caesar

Isn't the top chat an American?

beautiful player

So people have preferences. Tell me something I don't know, miss boo.

Kim Kardashian

Awful.

I wish we could get rid of racism by telling kids it's not acceptable but that will never happen.
The idea that your race is better than the rest has no logic behind it and is tough to combat, especially when it's being reinforced by ignorant parents.

Mtjjproducer

Wait Do white people have a hierarchy lik black people do with skin shade. I could have sworn he was white like many others because I can't see a difference. I heard about aboriginal once on a buzzfeed post. Can someone educate me on the difference between Australian and aboriginal please.

Hope that doesn't sound offensive just didn't know that was a light skin vs dark skin in white culture. This world is so sad why can't we all just get along

Dalai

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Originally posted by Nikolai.

What does wog mean?

"A foreigner or immigrant, especially one from southern Europe."

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B'Day

Smh. It never ends does it

Caesar

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Originally posted by Mtjjproducer

Wait Do white people have a hierarchy lik black people do with skin shade. I could have sworn he was white like many others because I can't see a difference. I heard about aboriginal once on a buzzfeed post. Can someone educate me on the difference between Australian and aboriginal please.

Hope that doesn't sound offensive just didn't know that was a light skin vs dark skin in white culture. This world is so sad why can't we all just get along

This he looks white to me idgi.

Jet

Well it's Grindr so why would anyone be surprised? It's a trashy hookup app filled with messy racists.

Scotty

The guy kind of looks like Perez Hilton so I wouldn't talk to him anyway

But this is dumb, idgi, I'm white and he literally looks white to me.

The guy speaking with blue text sounds like an ugly twink who thinks being in med school automatically makes you attractive and desirable when it doesn't

Trent W

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Originally posted by beautiful player

So people have preferences. Tell me something I don't know, miss boo.

I agree with the preference thing, but one thing is too have a preference and another one to be an asshole and threat people that you are not attracted to like ****.

I bet the white guy who wrote that is ugly as ****, he must carry some kind of frustration to threat people like that.

Lights and Waves

Why is Australia so damn racist?

Trent W

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Originally posted by Lights and Waves

Why is Australia so damn racist?

Lol the racist guy is American

Courtney Love

This is why you'll never catch me on grindr, I can't be around that much Hate even tho I'm not directly affected. Don't want to support trash.

-brian

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Originally posted by Dalai

"A foreigner or immigrant, especially one from southern Europe."

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so australians are racist against slightly tanner white people?

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Originally posted by Trent W

Lol the racist guy is American

i mean not that it matters but just because he's "studying at ucla" (could be a lie) doesn't make him american.. "doing my head in" and "wog" are not terms americans would say.

Pokistic

The Grindr guy seems like a Troll. I mean that does not automatically says all Grindr users are this racist and mean. I am a minority in America and I still use Grindr and I don't ever get this type of people there. But maybe one day I will find this Troll and I will just ignore it.

Signs

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Originally posted by beautiful player

So people have preferences. Tell me something I don't know, miss boo.

Not only is that no excuse to act like an asshole which is he main problem here, but the fact white european beauty ideals are favoured so much suggests that maybe there's a problem with racism. No, imo youre not racist if you have a racial preference and act on it, however the fact you have one in the first place is evidence of racism. And stating thing like "No _____" is tacky no matter what race.

Glamorous

Just another example of racism in the white gay community. And then they act surprised when they're called out on it.