“First, who are you? Do you have lived experience, or experience close to you?”
This is equivalent to a 'positionality statement'.
In woke politics, your 'lived experience' is deemed to limit what you are able to know. It literally believes that the knowledge is unavailable to you as you operate in, and have been brainwashed by, the world of power.
'So sit down, and let those of us awakened to a Collective Consciousness tell you what you need to know, how to speak, and how to act.'
'Your Ricky Gervases, Jimmy Carrs..It’s just your privileged cis white straight men who open their newspaper and go ‘Oh, people are talking about trans people. I can know a bit about that without experiencing it at all'
Rosie Jones tells them: 'Shut up'
attitude.co.uk/culture/rosie-…