Lived Experience. “Lived experience” means an individual’s personal experience with oppression. In particular, it means a member of a minority group’s experience with being discriminated against. Members of the majority group, like straight white men, cannot talk about their lived experience because they have not been oppressed. They can, however, talk about their lived experience if they have discriminated against members of the minority group. For example, a straight white man can tell stories about how he discriminated against gay people. This is his lived experience as an “oppressor.”
This is great and how the woke dismiss heterodox thinkers, such as John Mcwhorter, Glenn Loury, and Coleman Hughes. It’s also how somehow Black people that don’t follow the party line are now called white supremacists—Dave Chappelle, Larry Elder, and Condelezza Rice.
In case nobody noticed, the emotional side of conservatism pulls the same stunt when they say "It was cool in MY city today, so how can there be global warming?" If called out on the word GLOBAL, they'll cherry pick other towns that buck warming tends, or cite random glaciers that aren't retreating due to specialized topography. Can't they see it's all devious and transparent?
Before Black Lives Matter & the 2020 riots, I tended to see the Left as more honest, but the human brain is tribally wired in many people. I don't think most of this is fixable.
"Lived experience"? What other types of experiences are there?
Like "somatic embodiment" and "chattel slavery", the modifier adds no clarifying information.
This is great and how the woke dismiss heterodox thinkers, such as John Mcwhorter, Glenn Loury, and Coleman Hughes. It’s also how somehow Black people that don’t follow the party line are now called white supremacists—Dave Chappelle, Larry Elder, and Condelezza Rice.
Ideology trumps actual lived experience.
In case nobody noticed, the emotional side of conservatism pulls the same stunt when they say "It was cool in MY city today, so how can there be global warming?" If called out on the word GLOBAL, they'll cherry pick other towns that buck warming tends, or cite random glaciers that aren't retreating due to specialized topography. Can't they see it's all devious and transparent?
Before Black Lives Matter & the 2020 riots, I tended to see the Left as more honest, but the human brain is tribally wired in many people. I don't think most of this is fixable.