No man in his right mind would do this. In fact, I’ll bet there are exactly 10 men in the world that would be foolish enough to do this.
On the other hand, I’m sure that many women do this. Tacky and probably doesn’t even work, but who cares in the end? Better to find out now than after you’ve already sent the picture of your penis…
I agree with this a lot. I think anyone who would put it in their profile/ad isn’t someone I’d be interested in, not that I would never date someone who had a physical preference for their partners.
I think, online, in an ad, you need to cut out the chaff right away. Anyone who’s even witnessed someone ELSE go through an online dating hunt for any length of time knows that it’s a chore. And I think it’s actually a good idea to put what you KNOW you want, not what might interest you if the timing was right. There may be various reasons that a person’s race means much more than that to the ad-placer. Maybe they want to try different waters; maybe they equate race with a lifestyle they just aren’t interested in; maybe they just have never dated anything but their own race and have no interest in trying on things they’ve no reason to think will be a fit.
I think there are legitimate reasons to not date people from a particular race. Mostly that they are not your type. However, the vast majority of the time it is I see this is “I don’t date black people”. Which leads me to believe that it is mostly caused by racism against black people. I’m unlikely to get along with a racist, so I pretty much just go to the next profile the minute I see this. Maybe I’m missing out on a non-racist with a simple preference, but there are a ton of profiles and it’s not worth the time to find out.
For myself, it’s not a total deal-breaker, but it would be a minor red flag until I’m satisfied there’s a reason that doesn’t boil down to racism.
I will say: women who post in online classifieds get some awful, threatening, unnerving responses. If a woman found that she was getting these heavily from a particular race, I could forgive her for excluding that race in said online profile.
Nice try, but we all know you mean the Swedes.
I’m a white girl. But even if an ad was a white guy looking to date white girls, I don’t date racists or tone-deaf people. The lack of a “[race] only” declaration is no guarantee that a guy isn’t racist or tone-deaf, but the presence of such a declaration practically ensures he is one of those two things. I’m not opposed to having racial preferences, I have them myself. But to advertise them is rude (and lazy, because you can look at someone’s profile pictures and rule them out based on race in 5 seconds, if that’s your thing). This kind of thing Just Isn’t Done™ in the circles with which I associate. Such behavior indicates a lack of sensitivity, and is potentially hurtful to non-[race] people scanning that profile.
So, in a nutshell: dealbreaker.
Never dated or been attracted to a black woman, but I would be an idiot to put on a dating profile that i would not date someone because of their race. Yes, huge turn off.
I think black men send the nicest responses. Maybe it’s because, according to this?, people are asking them not to respond? 
I tried the online dating thing once. I have to say the most unnerving responses came from white guys under 25. Asian men where polite, but the ones responding where too gun ho to get married. I just wanted to see a movie and swap spit.
I do have to say if I ever try to meet someone online, I will put no drug users. I swear I got a ton of replies asking if I was into or drug friendly. :dubious:
BUT OMG YOU COULD BE MISSING OUT ON YOUR PERFECT MATCH!!!11 
If you’re advertising for your preferred partner, why would race be different than any other trait?
How is saying “Petite, Irish, Catholic, Redhead” any different?
How about sexual orientation? Can I say I abhor discrimination against gays, that I fully support gay marriage, etc., but, being straight, I’d prefer not to have a gay person answer my personal ad?
Everything about mating is to a certain extent discriminatory, though since the advent of homo sapiens, not enough that any new species has evolved from us.
I don’t think anyone is denying that having a racial preference in attraction is a problem. It’s just that there is also a population that simply is racist. There’s no quick way to differentiate between the two from a profile, so it’s just on to the next one.
I’m on OKCupid and I get at least 50 visitors a week (you can stalk anonymously) and 5-10 messages. And I’m a dude. Women probably get 10x that. If there’s a red flag in a profile, well I got 49 other potentials to look at.
Well, that’s the thing - a preference is understandable, but isn’t saying “I won’t date anyone of X race no matter what” kind of distasteful? It seems so close minded. I understand “I generally have found myself to prefer women of race X”, but saying “I will never date a woman of race Y no matter how great she is and how much we seem compatable” seems like a character flaw to me, hence it would affect my desire to contact them just as if they had some other character flaw like if they were tortured puppies or they were fans of the Big Bang Theory.
Isn’t the whole online dating process kind of distasteful?
Deal breaker. At best, I assume that anyone who says that has a very different value system than I do.
What’s very strange is when men who have had that on their profile (or have every race except for Black selected - which happens a lot) have written to me (There are pictures. I’m not racially ambiguous). That makes me wonder what the hell they’re thinking.
Tacky, probably a deal breaker. I certainly have racial preferences, but they’re just that – preferences, and have more to do with aesthetics. Sure, some minorities may be (statistically, not biologically) predisposed towards being parts of certain subcultures or activities or whatever that I dislike or don’t identify with. But to list that on your dating profile seems… ill thought out. It may be in no way out of malice, I accept that, but I have to question the intelligence, or at the very least the tact of the person who put that there.
Maybe if they were otherwise a perfect match for me, and their reason was “oh, I’ve just had 100% bad experiences with <x> people via this site, I know they’re not all, or even mostly bad, it’s not that I wouldn’t date one if we met in person and hit it off, but bad experiences happen so often with people of that race on this site that I put that there.” But even so, they’d have to be pretty special for me to get past it.
“Not attracted to X” - no big deal. “X only” - fuck off, Klan girl.
I gotta figure if you don’t care that having shit like that written right on your profile makes you look like a huge damn racialist douche, then probably you are actually one of those. It’s not like it’s that hard to sort through your respondants’ pictures to see which ones are eskimos or whatever and just not respond to them. What is the point of even having it on there unless you specifically want people reading your profile to think of you as “race conscious”?
I don’t see a problem with it. If someone has a preference, they have a preference. Why criticize them? If you are offended, don’t answer the ad.
What is I posted an ad stating I wouldn’t date anyone who will eat foie gras? Would that be wrong? Or how about “Only seeking vegetarians”? Why single out a racial preference as offensive, but allow all others?
Because you don’t choose your race, and your race says nothing about you or your values.
ETA: I mean, are you for serious? It’s like you don’t know racism exists or something