Tinder bans man for life for sending Asian woman racist message after she doesn’t respond

Tinder has very publicly banned a man for life after he racially abused an Asian woman.

Screenshots of text messages the man sent to a woman he met on the dating app circulated this week, drawing widespread condemnation. They show him lose his temper after the woman stops responding, using a racist term of abuse and saying: “Next time don’t give our your number dumb ****.”

After the messages were posted on Facebook, other women came forward saying they too had experienced abuse and harassment from the same man.

In it, Rosette Pambakian, Tinder’s vice-president, communications and brand, said: “I was personally offended by what you said. Your words to that woman were an assault, not only on her, but on all of us. Every day, we work to rid our ecosystem of bad actors like you.

“Why anyone would choose to go out into the world and spread hate I will never understand, but you do not have that choice on Tinder. Hate is not an option and we will continue to fight it wherever it rears its ugly head.”

Tinder has banned users before for abuse or harassment, but this appears to be the first time it has targeted a specific user in one of its blogposts.