I don't think the throat-clearing phrase "Speaking as a..." is particularly bad. Yes, it frequently prefixes identitarian power-games, but it can also serve as a valid skin-in-the-game signal, in an era where nearly everyone speaks nonsense nearly all the time.
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speaking as an empiricist (ha) I don't see why the basic ideas of standpoint epistemology are supposed to strike me as unreasonable. "knowledge is knowledge of lawlike regularities in lived experience" is just orthodox Hume
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Pwoblem is, "lived experience" is used in an entirely different manner, specifically, as an instrument to provide outright made up and/or hallucinated stuff with a degree of socially meaningful validity, or worse yet,
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erroneously construct claim of knowledge about [group] by claiming membership in [group] (as if "lived experience" as an, oh, say, man, confers a particularly useful understanding of how, oh, say, corpora cavernosa operate and, eventually, fail to operate)
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first problem there is claim of membership isn't the same thing as membership. I can self-identify as a Mongol all I want but the fact that people who actually live in Mongolia see more of what goes on there than I do won't change
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Well, I'm a woman but if I have to, I dunno, fix someone's ruptured Fallopian tube, that's basically someone's funeral right there. The knowledge one gains about being X from actually being X is... limited and... often systematically exaggerated.
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well, diagnosis is heavily reliant on self-reporting, which seems relevant somehow, but agree it's a very very long way from believing a patient's self-report of a symptom to believing the patient is qualified to do invasive surgery on an internal organ just because they have one
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well, I have some beef with the way "lived experience" doohickeys get dragged into patient self-report matters, as it is often framed as attempts to frame self-reports as inherently worthwhile "psychological reality" which is of course horseshit even if the SR is 100% sincere
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that my UFO ex ([very likely] completely sincerely) reported having grey space dudes that grow from underground mycelium abduct him and try to implant a DNI device does not mean that grey UFO aliens (or other exotica of that general type) actually meaningfully exist.
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Given how many pretentious blowhards there are, a non-falsifiable “no really, I know what I’m talking about” would be amazing!
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