ICLR now has a track with race-based (and more) acceptance criteria
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> Age: outside the range of 30-50 years
> Gender: does not identify as male
> Sexual orientation: does not identify as heterosexual
> Geographical: not located in North America, Western Europe and UK, or East Asia
> Race: non-White
I have no idea what the point of this is. I'm 25 so I'm "ok". Any woman or non-binary is "ok", any "non-white" is "ok".
This means that anyone except John Doe, the white, straight 30-something US-based researcher can submit which is just discrimination but with a whitelist instead of a blacklist to sound more inclusive.
But why does it matter that there's a [ed.:conjunction]?
It's still discrimination. Anyone who is part of any of this group has reason to react vigorously, to ensure that the group he's part of isn't going to be systematically discriminated against.
This is a literal rule restricting who can publish certain kinds of things at a certain venue based on ethnicity-- partially, yes, but based on ethnicity.
I think I got it right, with the way I formulated it.
> Race: non-White
Usually it's not so direct, and they'll write something like "Black, indigenous [no, ethnically French people living in France don't count], Latinx, Middle Eastern, Asian, Pacific Islander, or minority* ethnic" - i.e. enumerate every racial group except whites.
*Minority relative to one of the still majority-white countries, of course.