Her exact quote:
Nah, she is not really calling racism and sexism here. Not at all, nothing to see!
Hey, Rosalind Franklin got discriminated 70 years ago, so it is only fair why my unpublished paper is not getting mentioned in a lecture that talks about GANs and that cited 35 papers. Of course, it did not cite another hundred published (only top venue) papers, and another few thousands (probably more than 10k+) unpublished (or published on second-tier venue) papers. You know, like mine, which is not yet published.
No, I am not. I am saying that the paper had no business on being on that lecture (only this year there have been 100+ GAN papers which have been accepted on top venues, so only this year there have been 100+ better papers than hers). Crying racism and sexism in this card is clearly using racism and sexist cards.
I admit that she might have been simply frustrated, and she is overrating her papers on delusional levels. It happens, true. A paper that I thought would be an oral of mine got rejected, and on resubmission got barely accepted. I thought it was awesome as did my supervisor. I accepted the criticism though, and improved the paper for resubmission instead of saying 'is this just because I have a Muslim name' in twitter. For sure it would have given me more likes though, maybe a strategy for next time around (just kidding).
I am using the fact that her paper had less than 0.1% chance of being on that lecture from a frequentist point of view.
I am angry that some powerful members of the community are actively encouraging this type of behavior. I don't care too much about the OP, she might just be frustrated or might actually deliberately trying to take advantage of the current anti-racism wave in order to get undeserved fame for herself. In the first case, she would be misguided, in the second she is trying to advance her career by politics (and potentially ruining that of others). On the other hand, I am angry that powerful people are encouraging this and are politicizing science. In many ways, it has been going for years.