But how can we cultivate this mindset: resisting profiling when the social group is salient to us? Can we design a nudge to help movement participants resist profiling? I'm clueless... it's so hard, and I believe the fate of social movements depends on figuring it out./6

But of course that is not true. You may be convinced that profiling is morally wrong and yet can't resist it. Profiling is so natural and resisting it is so difficult, especially when the social group is salient, like in the context of a social movement./5

So you're already capable of resisting seeing individuals only by their social identity. You're already capable of forgetting that an individual belongs to an oppressor group! Movement participants are already wired against profiling and hence wired for persistence!/4

One might think there is no need for cultivation! Demographic profiling is an essential part of oppressive practices. If you're part of a movement against oppression, you're already against profiling, right?/3

It's like the human psyche isn't built to tolerate hating too many people for too long. So it seems we need to cultivate a mindset that separates individuals from their social groups./2

However, in the humanities, people come with prior expectations that are usually far from reality, and it can take them a long time to converge to the reality of the publication market, which significantly harms their survival chances./3

In the sciences, students grasp it quickly and become fluent in publishing because they either have no prior expectations or their expectations match reality./2

😅True…

It can be but they make progress in a tangible way. So, no one is worried about them…

and then, depending on how often I jumped to the other tiles, I may regress or progress. But why do the past and future always seem more stable to me? There is something both irrational and addictive about this mindset./2

(look how few connections the circled node has compared to other highlighted nodes), I somehow contributed to the movement by connecting a network of religious people to a movement against a government that represents their religion./4

my little role in this movement was to connect two networks of people through my religious identity (like the circled node in this picture). That’s to say I thought (again, maybe unjustifiably) that although I’m not famous and I don’t have many friends…/3

I absolutely loved that movement. Although I was active on social media, I was a nobody, but I was receiving all sorts of threats from both pro-government forces and protesters. A big thing that helped me during that storm was the thought (justified or unjustified) that …/2

It reminded me of this:
bsky.app/profile/soma...

And they are my kin
You are my kin, mother
And separation is hard, mother, by God it is
They are my kin…/2