I have good friends here in Mastodon, otherwise I would have closed this account right now due to Mastodon/Sigmoid moderation policies.

I'll stop posting anything not related to AI/Computer Vision.

@at Noting from Mastodon but some comments from Andrey, he said "This was more of an in-case warning (no consequences attached)".
Yeah, I really appreciate your misunderstanding, thanks for not banning me from Mastodon and just giving me a warning without further consequences because I don't like to work with Iranian supervisors.

@hue Pardon me for jumping into a conversation that might have been intended to be private, and do let me know if you’d rather not have my opinion 🙂 But without any context, when I see the words “I don’t like to work with Iranians”, I see it as a prejudiced statement …

Perhaps, there’s context behind it, but to classify a whole race as people you’d not want to work with, instead of individuals seems a bit strange to me. Would you feel OK if I said “I will not work with white people” or “I will not work with Americans”?

This might have been the reason for warning perhaps? Just my thoughts, (which is totally your prerogative to tell me not to bother you with 😛)

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@f
I'm an Iranian who lives in Iran, and based on my personal experience, I prefer not to work with an Iranian supervisor if I'm going to do my PhD abroad, is that a bad thing?

@hue That’s a different thing and understandable (in a way) 🙂 I’m a Sri Lankan and I’d prefer not to work with (most) Sri Lankans due to cultural issues which inevitably come up at some point or another, but if I simply said “I don’t want to work with Sri Lankans”, people might not get what I’m talking about …

So, just wondering if the people in question knew the history/backstory or not when they warned you?

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People could ask for the context of that tood or policy mention that my post is not appropriate and should be edited. But someone decided to take the easy way and just report that toot without any explanation. This is wat makes me sad.

@hue Unfortunately, people generally tend to take the easy way out. And they will also generally not bother to tell you their reasoning (which might have given you context) since that’s just too much work 😛

Based on what you said, I assumed you were not Iranian. So I did the same thing. We all do it in one form or another. The best we can hope for is to learn from it and possibly adjust our expectations? At least, that’s what I do since hoping that everybody else will change is too much to ask for 🙂