I am guessingÂyou are referring to the remark about COVID. In no way I meant to imply that Germans are superior to Americans, Indians, or any other nationality. I am sorry if that was the perception I gave and you found that offensive. Lesson learned, and I can only apologize. For context, I made that remark having had just read this article:Â
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:26 PM Guri Sohi <gssohi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Alexandra,
Thanks for sharing the link. I listened to your non-scientific
remarks. There is one part which I found extremely offensive: the
implication that Germans are superior to Americans, Brazilians,
British, Indians. Many of us have heard that numerous times
before in many different ways.
Yesterday I gave a talk at
the Women in Logic workshop. It was a
scientific talk with remarks at the end on
being a woman in logic. The youtube stream was
reported and taken down -- yesterday we were
not sure when/why, butÂhere's the report from
the organisers:
- What happened is that someone "flagged"
the WiL video streaming
towards the end of Alexandra's talk (after
the scientific part was
concluded).
Â- As soon as someone flags a video
streaming, Youtube immediately
removes everything (and I mean _everything_,
streaming, video file,
identifications) and sends a warning to the
whole FSCD-IJCAR Channel.
This process is particularly automatic as
human intervention is
minimized during the pandemic.
Â- We immediately made an Appeal to Youtube,
but while the removal of
the content is automatized, the Appeal needs
to be approved by humans.
Â- Today, we received the "Decision on your
Video Appeal": "After
further review, we have reinstated your
video.".
Summing up, we won the Appeal, but it is
not very useful.
My personal opinion:
someone raised a community complaint and
flagged
the video as a hostile act towards the WiL
workshop.
This is a further proof that you need to
continue doing what you're doing!Â
I am really sad to see that some troll hates
women so much he was monitoring the stream
and waited for my "complaints" to start to
take down the stream.Â
Â
I feel very welcome at
MadPL and I see a lot of you as Allies to
women and otherÂminorities in theÂfield.
Please continue being allies because as this
shows the field has a long way to go to be
really inclusive.Â