A) "My identity makes my experience valid."
B) "Let's not merely use identity to validate or invalidate opinions."
A) "You're only saying that cuz you're a cis-het-white woman, don't think your identity somehow makes your opinion more valid."
W.T.F. 
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Notice how they never acknowledge that arguments are being made; instead mere "opinions" are being uttered.
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The problems with valorizing lived experience are the variables that affect it. Not everyone is sane. Not everyone is sane everyday. Memory is fallible and myriad preconceptions inform our behaviours. Lived experience is fine for broad strokes mostly, not individual experience.
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And "lived experiences" only count when they bolster particular kinds of prefab principle. In fact, given their social-constructivist stance "lived experience" is itself constructed no? Most of the people arguing with you aren't even bothering to be consistent
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