If your point is that a journal does not have to be a bad journal because it is based in e.g. India, then you are right. If your point is that using country of origin to disqualify journals is discriminatory in individual cases, then you are perhaps still right. But none of that prevents country of origin to be a useful indicator if experience shows that the quality of a journal correlates with the “uncloaked” country of origin. And it does seem to be the case that a lot of variance can be explained by that variable. So perhaps you should not see it as a criterion, but an indicator.
You are welcome to argue that caste and holiday destinations are similar indicators; I don’t see much evidence beyond suggestion.
PS: what is it with all these “thumbs-up for weird posts” here?
