The corporates dishing money out to the head honchos of the movement seem to have made a bad call
In the tense uncertainty of spring 2020, when the first Covid lockdown began to ease but the virus was still at large, I was among those who found themselves without a romantic chair when the music had stopped. Though it would be a while before I was ready to exchange saliva with anyone, dating apps became a reassuring diversion.
Or at least they were until George Floyd’s tragic murder in May 2020, at which point such apps began, with extreme intrusiveness, to preach the agenda of the ascendent Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The worst of them regularly interrupted swipe-athons with messages demanding allegiance to the ethics of BLM, with the implication that we had better make sure our sexual choices were not racially biased.
