that person is a good example of how liberatory
2013-02-19
that person is a good example of how
liberatory discourse becomes diluted and meaningless
“my lived experience contradicts your point about history and your
existence!? SO THERE”
er. okay.
you realize that this isn’t how it works, right?
‘lived experience’ is not a get out of jail free card for you to vomit
your oppressive feelings all over the place
if your lived experience is rooted in oppression (say, white supremacy
for white people)
you cannot invoke like a magical incantation against truth
(my lived experience includes a shitton of anti-Blackness, which is why
I’m anti-Black. Do you know what I do, then? when Black people are
talking about their experiences and lives and oppression, i shut the
fuck up. so I don’t continue to oppress them.
what i don’t use is my lived experience as an anti-Black Asian as an
excuse to keep being anti-Black)