At first glance, it might appear that the term “Lived Experiences” is merely a somewhat belabored way of referring to events that one has personally experienced: i.e, while I was walking down the street, someone bumped into my shoulder without stopping to apologize. Under this innocent conception of the term, “Lived Experiences” are synonymous with “events,” “experiences,” and “occurrences.” A “Lived Experience,” under this view, is merely a report of what happened.
This is not what Woke Folk are talking about when they refer to “Lived Experiences.”
A “Lived Experience” is an event that has been
interpreted by Woke Folk as manifesting oppression: i.e, while I was walking down the street, someone bumped into my shoulder without stopping to apologize
because they were racist. This is the difference between an experience and a “Lived Experience;” the former is an empirical claim that relays an event that is independently verifiable and is thus subject to scrutiny under public reason. The latter is a
phenomenological claim which colors an event with
intentionality, or its “aboutness relation;” and crucially, that relation is
not subject to independent scrutiny. The empiricist reports on an event that occurred at some point in time and space; the phenomenologist relays the
meaning of that event
as interpreted by the phenomenologist.
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Originally Posted by ResponsibleIdiot
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