We need to start calling out the 'lived experience' as being among the lowest-quality data. All it points to is someone's interpretation of something. 'Transphobia' is a prime example: Countless TRAs claiming 'transphobia' is widespread when in fact it's resistance and challenge to their crazy claims and outrageous behaviour. I mean, if …
We need to start calling out the 'lived experience' as being among the lowest-quality data. All it points to is someone's interpretation of something. 'Transphobia' is a prime example: Countless TRAs claiming 'transphobia' is widespread when in fact it's resistance and challenge to their crazy claims and outrageous behaviour. I mean, if I insisted I was a cat and people didn't go along with me, I could accuse the world of 'transfelinophobia'.
How do we know a white guy shooting up an Asian spa was racist? How do we know he fetishized Asian women? Maybe those were the spas closest to him (or farthest). Maybe he doesn't much care who sucks his dick. Unless he's expressed himself in some way to prefer having sex with Asian women, it's sheer speculation, and irresponsible of the media to play it up as though it's racist, when no one can look into his head and see what he fancies.
Charlaine's 'lived experience' appears fairly coloured by ideology. She assumes 'countless', 'millions' of Asians may be having this same experience. Considering how many Asians there are in the world she's probably right, but what about the Asians who *don't* have these experiences, who *don't* interpret everything as racist? Also, the rest of our 'lived experiences' must count for the same too. POC can't know what it's like to be white, women can't know what it's like to be male. White people and male people's opinions and perceptions still matter and can't be completely discounted.
BTW I *did* have a boyfriend (white) who fetishized blondes, and it did seem to be a racist thing. He told me early on he liked blondes, but later he expressed some fairly racist reasons why (he prefers white women too), and I would DEFINITELY call him a fetishist in a lot of ways. We didn't last long after that, although the relationship was already doomed due to him wanting to move back to the US, and, go figger, southern Cal. Gee I wonder why.
We need to start calling out the 'lived experience' as being among the lowest-quality data. All it points to is someone's interpretation of something. 'Transphobia' is a prime example: Countless TRAs claiming 'transphobia' is widespread when in fact it's resistance and challenge to their crazy claims and outrageous behaviour. I mean, if I insisted I was a cat and people didn't go along with me, I could accuse the world of 'transfelinophobia'.
How do we know a white guy shooting up an Asian spa was racist? How do we know he fetishized Asian women? Maybe those were the spas closest to him (or farthest). Maybe he doesn't much care who sucks his dick. Unless he's expressed himself in some way to prefer having sex with Asian women, it's sheer speculation, and irresponsible of the media to play it up as though it's racist, when no one can look into his head and see what he fancies.
Charlaine's 'lived experience' appears fairly coloured by ideology. She assumes 'countless', 'millions' of Asians may be having this same experience. Considering how many Asians there are in the world she's probably right, but what about the Asians who *don't* have these experiences, who *don't* interpret everything as racist? Also, the rest of our 'lived experiences' must count for the same too. POC can't know what it's like to be white, women can't know what it's like to be male. White people and male people's opinions and perceptions still matter and can't be completely discounted.
BTW I *did* have a boyfriend (white) who fetishized blondes, and it did seem to be a racist thing. He told me early on he liked blondes, but later he expressed some fairly racist reasons why (he prefers white women too), and I would DEFINITELY call him a fetishist in a lot of ways. We didn't last long after that, although the relationship was already doomed due to him wanting to move back to the US, and, go figger, southern Cal. Gee I wonder why.