• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, ok. I’m sure Florida universities have things worth stealing that literally every business in the US doesn’t. This is performative at best. Racist at worst.

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      1 year ago

      …do you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what kind of research happens at university labs, or are you just assuming none of it happens in Florida universities?

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        1 year ago

        All of my lab’s data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn’t have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It’s insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

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        1 year ago

        The latter seems likely.

        But my point is actually that he’s (at best) trying to cover a single hole of a sieve. It’s not accomplishing anything.

        If this were a real problem to be solved, it would need to be done at the federal level, and not just against Chinese nationals. If it really were a risk to the states, it should be all foreign nationals in all colleges.