Dating online isn’t a new thing, and the stigma surrounding internet dating is practically non-existent. There are countless sites where one can try their hand at finding romance online.
However, one dating app in the US has stirred up a fair amount of controversy. Billboards for a site called WhitePeopleMeet have been springing up in the state of Utah and people are fairly mortified.
Ugh, can my state get any more embarrassing!? https://t.co/8XAeejHVE5
— mikeutah (@LifeAfterMrmnsm) January 1, 2016
If you have to pay $4 to meet white people in Utah, you’re doing it wrong. https://t.co/4wa1wW08um
— First Round Scafe (@erinscafe) January 4, 2016
The site’s founder Sam Russell spoke to The Washington Post: “It’s about equal opportunity. The last thing in the world I am is racist. I dated a black woman once. I helped raise a young black man … I just believe it’s hypocrisy to say ‘one group can do this, but another can’t.’”
“It’s our right to have this business,” he replied — the “we” presumably referring to white people, generally. “If we want equal rights in this country, it has to be equal rights for everybody.”
However, it seems that the ‘equal rights’ policy doesn’t extend to any white LGBT people, as the site doesn’t have a same-sex search option.
