Some unfortunate statistics about Racial Preferences in online dating:

What I find more disturbing is the perceived necessity to "Debias Desire." You cannot negotiate attraction. And yet the SJW crowd wants to run experiments on you. Well not all of you, more on that in a moment (N.B. Italics are direct quotes from the linked piece.)

Debiasing Desire: Addressing Bias & Discrimination on Intimate Platforms

Evidently, letting people choose what they want is "bad" because they won't "choose right" - although only some biases are bad, so short guys won't benefit nor middle-aged guys who want 18 year olds.

"OKCupid, for instance, ran a series of experiments in which users were unwittingly) presented with "bad" matches (according to the site’s algorithms) but told that they were highly compatible. The site found that the power of suggestion had a real effect on user behavior: users who were predicted to be incompatible had more successful interactions when they were told by the platform that they were compatible."

So basically OKCupid LIED to people and hoped for the best. And how many "more successful interactions" were there? That would seem to something that could (a) be quantified and (b) is important to disclose (let alone the misleading matching.)

"...its results suggest that intentional experimentation with matching algorithm design can not only help users explore their preferences, but may be necessary in order to determine the efficacy of these tools and to discover unexpected good matches."

Yes so basically "We as a for-profit business who you are paying to give you a service you want have to intentionally give you things you don't want so that we can figure out how to manipulate you better."

Read on:

"Resistance to anti-bias interventions that rest on a strict notion of autonomy assumes that platforms know and understand how to satisfy users’ true preferences...In contrast, limiting the ease with which users can act on certain preferences in the interest of reducing bias rests on the belief that preferences are never completely determined in advance. No user is a completely independent agent, with perfect self-knowledge to act in ways that accord with their pre-established preferences. Rather, preferences take shape and evolve in the process of navigating these platforms."

IOW, "Yes, Stan, we know you like biological women, but really, isn't that a bit homophobic/transphobic? You need to try some dick, Stan."

None for me, thanks.

Ofc, not everybody is to be subject to manipulation:

"While it may strike us as normatively acceptable to encourage intimate platform users to be open to more diverse potential partners, we might find some categories more palatable for such intervention than others. For example, it might seem inappropriate to suggest that a Jewish user seeking other Jewish people "expand her horizons" past those preferences, which might be based on a number of religious and cultural considerations. Similarly, a platform suggesting that a gay user "consider" dating someone of a different gender would likely strike us as problematic."

Well, wait a minute. Why is it "inappropriate" not to suggest that a Jewish woman "taste the rainbow" because muh "CULTURAL REASONS!" but it's ok to try do to that to a white woman who wants her future kids to look like her? And why must Steve the Gay Guy not be given the chance to sample some sushi? Now, gentle reader, I would not want that for Steve or the aforementioned Jewish lady. Let them choose as they wish. But that should apply to ALL users.

The simple fact is that we want what we want. Reality is ugly around the margins. It's a bit racist, a bit sexist, a bit "heightist" and very "lookist" (or whatever). The thing to do is to find the pool of partners that are into you and select dates/mates from that pool. 90% of us are born, live, and die outside of the top 10%. You can work on what you have, but complaining about it won't help.