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Baffled by the phrase "lived experience" and its ubiquity. I caught myself saying it the other day and realized it made no sense. Aren't experiences necessarily lived?

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'lived experience' is largely a pretentious way of say 'my experience, as understood through a certain ideological filter that nobody dare question, or else'

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Sometimes an expression is just an expression. Bari Weiss uses this one herself. Not everything is ideological.

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You didn’t just “say... it the other day”. You published the phrase in your book. Bari Weiss: “And the lived experience of committed Jews and Zionists on campus has gotten much, much uglier.” Like “personal experience” it is used for emphasis and clarity.

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I mean in the original tweet she said that she said it

1:28 AM · Dec 14, 2020