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"My lived experience."

"My experience."

Someone has yet to satisfactory explain the difference between these two. "Lived experience" strikes me as redundant in the same way as "past experience." There's "present experience," but that would be "living experience" - present tense - or just "experiencing."

How's "my lived experience" different from "my personal experience," or "my professional experience," or "my near-death experience?" Once upon a time we called these "opinions." The Stoics certainly did. The quest to fix-and-flip serviceable words, like "opinion," has grown tiresome. Now we have "lived experience," soon to be replaced by "authentic lived experience," followed by "authentic lived éxpériençé."

I wonder how kind the Lindy Effect will be to many of the 21st century word decorations like "lived experience."

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'Authentic lived experience' is already out there, it is precisely the rhetorical tool used by Progressives and postmodernists to exemplify their characterization of the oppression of group #245. Meanwhile, they are content to undermine American treaty obligations with actual sovereign nations and use the testimony [hearsay] of individuals associated with #245 as 'evidence'. Transparent.

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Indeed. Having been informed on several occasions to be in oppressor groups #7, #11, #17, #29, and #53, I'm not allowed any "authentic lived experiences" without authorisation. (I have them anyway, but don't register them with accepted authorities. In the interest of transparency, of course.) No one is interested in my...er, testimony. "SHUT. UP.", progressives and postmodernists helpful explain. "Lived evidence" can be such an annoying burden on occasion. Not for me, I should add. For the progressives and postmodernists.

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