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STOP racist posts about Chinese researchers [D]

Edit: the original post targeting Chinese researchers is removed by the mods. Sorry for any confusion.

Yes, I'm calling it out. It IS racism. As an active member of r/MachineLearning and a researcher who is ethnic Chinese, I am DISGUSTED by unfounded accusations against the group of researchers who constitute over half of the field. Such posts pop up every other week, grounded in conspiracy theories, and creating a sinophobia echo chamber.

I understand the salty feeling when one's paper is rejected, no matter whether the paper actually deserves acceptance or not. Given the noise in conference organization and reviewing process, and a relatively junior body of participants, it is very likely that one finds a paper "worse than mine" slip into the conference, and there's a high chance that the paper has a Chinese author. That's simply because of the composition of the authors, and does not warrant accusations, aka witch hunts, towards certain ethnic groups.

This sub is about an important scientific subject in the modern world. If anyone agrees with the logic "80% of the authors are Chinese, so my rejection is their fault.", they should seriously rethink their career plan since such thinking does not belong to serious scientists. We should be open to discussing the problems we have in the current conference organization and reviewing process, but racism should not have a foothold in our field.

Edit: Since the post sparked some heated debate, I elaborate a bit. In the comments, some are like "you might be good, but I had this/that bad experience with Chinese..."

Sound familiar? This is exactly the type of comment racists make to justify racism. We have a systematic failure in the peer-review system and whether a paper/reviewer comes from China does not play any major role contributing to this failure. In a math- and data-driven sub, normalizing such claims is unbelievable and unacceptable. This IS racism.

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