HeyJaredZenaDell
Zena Dell Lowe writes about story, culture, and the search for truth in a world increasingly skeptical of objective moral claims. Her work examines how narratives shape our understanding of identity, morality, and what it means to be heroic.
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“Only People Who Have Experienced ‘X’ Can Speak to ‘X’” Is a Lie From the Pit of Hell (opens the original)
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I’m getting very tired of this particular line of argument:“Unless you have personally experienced X, you can’t speak to X.”This is a profoundly anti-intellectual position. It replaces things like evidence, reason, moral reasoning, empathy, and even the human capacity to imagine another person’s experience with one supposedly overriding qualification:Personal experience.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ysco!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progress
Ted Lasso Says, “Be Curious, Not Judgmental.” So Why Is It So Judgmental? (opens the original)
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