Marking student project reports, and Adobe Acrobat has unhelpfully added a little AI demon of temptation to my shoulder. I do appreciate its implied empathy though.

And here's Amilcar Cabral with similar sentiments, as quoted in Dami Makanju et al.'s recent paper in PlosOne:

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There are definitely v similar quotes from anti-colonial figures like Cabral and Fanon - here's Fanon, quoted in a recent paper in ERSP:

doi.org/10.1080/1046...

Sunrise this morning was a nice reminder to bring light wherever we can, especially in tough times

"The head of Mexico’s Senate quickly hit back, asking on X, what tariffs Mexico should impose on the US to get it to stop consuming drugs and illegally exporting weapons to its southern neighbour."

Trump's tariff proposals going down well with the neighbours

Just to add another reminder from this US election: many, many white women are white first

Posted four years ago on the other place:

This by Paul Dickerson (new ed. just released) is also worth a look:

Slight bias as a chapter co-author, but this one (now 7th ed, 2020) used to be (supposedly) a 'European perspective' - though moot how different that is from US in global terms!

This paper, also by @jrvollhardt.bsky.social and Rezarta Bilali, gives a powerful empirical example of how different forms of CV belief shape intergroup attitudes:

doi: 10.1111/pops.12174

Chapter 1 of this 2020 book edited by @jrvollhardt.bsky.social is a great intro:

Evidence for the hypothesised process too: the reflecting back/felt understanding condition (vs control and perspective getting) predicted better intergroup outcomes via felt positive regard:

Feeling understood -> they see us positively -> +ve intergroup outcomes

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A: Yes: reading outgroup members’ reflected back summaries of ingroup perspectives led to higher felt understanding, trust, optimism (but not forgiveness – maybe due to ceiling effect)

Effect was vs. control, and a perspective-getting condition

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