Verna Monson
@bewhoyouare.bsky.social
I’m an adult developmental psychologist who specializes in identity in healthcare. Trauma-informed coaching to define and ground oneself in purpose. Exploring one’s why. Mapping one’s how. No DMs.
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Verna Monson
@bewhoyouare.bsky.social
· Mar 19
You can try to ban DEI, but you can never ban the thoughts that we need diversity to achieve excellence, we need equity to level the playing field, and we need inclusion to unite people towards common goals and problem solving. No one can police those thoughts and values.
Thoughts are free!
Thoughts are free!
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Morality and Accountability
daily-ink.davidtruss.com/morality-and...
(hat tip to @debayoorr.bsky.social for the inspiration)
daily-ink.davidtruss.com/morality-and...
(hat tip to @debayoorr.bsky.social for the inspiration)
Morality and Accountability
I saw this question and response on BlueSky Social and it got me thinking:
Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"
And not:
"is
daily-ink.davidtruss.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Morality and Accountability
daily-ink.davidtruss.com/morality-and...
(hat tip to @debayoorr.bsky.social for the inspiration)
daily-ink.davidtruss.com/morality-and...
(hat tip to @debayoorr.bsky.social for the inspiration)
Reposted by Verna Monson
You can try to ban DEI, but you can never ban the thoughts that we need diversity to achieve excellence, we need equity to level the playing field, and we need inclusion to unite people towards common goals and problem solving. No one can police those thoughts and values.
Thoughts are free!
Thoughts are free!
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
You can try to ban DEI, but you can never ban the thoughts that we need diversity to achieve excellence, we need equity to level the playing field, and we need inclusion to unite people towards common goals and problem solving. No one can police those thoughts and values.
Thoughts are free!
Thoughts are free!
You can try to ban DEI, but you can never ban the thoughts that we need diversity to achieve excellence, we need equity to level the playing field, and we need inclusion to unite people towards common goals and problem solving. No one can police those thoughts and values.
Thoughts are free!
Thoughts are free!
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
You can try to ban DEI, but you can never ban the thoughts that we need diversity to achieve excellence, we need equity to level the playing field, and we need inclusion to unite people towards common goals and problem solving. No one can police those thoughts and values.
Thoughts are free!
Thoughts are free!
Reposted by Verna Monson
So proud of our board member, Mahzarin R. Banaji, for receiving the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences! She shares this honor with Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracín, Anthony Greenwald & Richard Petty for "revolutionizing how we understand and measure attitudes." Congrats!
Mahzarin R. Banaji, Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Social Science category in this seventeenth edition
Awarded together with Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracín, Anthony G. Greenwald and Richard E. Petty for “revolutionizing the way we understand and measure attitudes"
www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So proud of our board member, Mahzarin R. Banaji, for receiving the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences! She shares this honor with Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracín, Anthony Greenwald & Richard Petty for "revolutionizing how we understand and measure attitudes." Congrats!
Humiliation of a human being or group of people is an act of violence. Words can be used as bullets.
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Humiliation of a human being or group of people is an act of violence. Words can be used as bullets.
Reposted by Verna Monson
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
Reposted by Verna Monson
From Opinion
“Politicians are allowed to criticize the press,” writes the editorial board. “But there is a difference between using language and using muscle.” The Trump administration “is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers.”
“Politicians are allowed to criticize the press,” writes the editorial board. “But there is a difference between using language and using muscle.” The Trump administration “is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers.”
Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
From Opinion
“Politicians are allowed to criticize the press,” writes the editorial board. “But there is a difference between using language and using muscle.” The Trump administration “is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers.”
“Politicians are allowed to criticize the press,” writes the editorial board. “But there is a difference between using language and using muscle.” The Trump administration “is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers.”
Reposted by Verna Monson
The Incremental Nature of Evil.....
January 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Incremental Nature of Evil.....
Reposted by Verna Monson
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Reposted by Verna Monson
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
November 27, 2024 at 11:41 PM
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
Election reflection: we were flooded with maps colored red and blue to describe us. Like colors of jerseys for team sports. But governing is not a game. When we choose sides - red or blue, drunk on winning - we can lose our identity of being human. Caring. Awareness of others. Critical judgement.
November 27, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Election reflection: we were flooded with maps colored red and blue to describe us. Like colors of jerseys for team sports. But governing is not a game. When we choose sides - red or blue, drunk on winning - we can lose our identity of being human. Caring. Awareness of others. Critical judgement.
One sky above us. A blue sky.
November 24, 2024 at 3:42 PM
One sky above us. A blue sky.
A Pheasant Back mushroom
November 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
A Pheasant Back mushroom
