My take on this was best described by this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/10k31w3/d_iclr_now_has_a_track_with_racebased_and_more/j5p

My take on this was best described by this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/10k31w3/d_iclr_now_has_a_track_with_racebased_and_more/j5p79lk/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/10k31w3/d_... 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.