Today I had to unfollow someone on insta as they showed William's reply to the journo and the person had put that it's not up to him to say the family are not racist as it's not his lived experience.
How can the Royal family or any of us who are not poc respond then? Are we all racist because it's not our lived experience? This lived experience phrase keeps coming up and it is shutting valid conversations down.
I still cannot understand how Harry can have let this happen and let Meghan trash his family and our country this way.
The "lived experience" and "her truth" statements are designed to make people think that we must also accept other peoples interpretation of events as some sort of fact. They are not totally to be dismissed, often they give a good insight to someones state of mind and useful when trying to help someone but when pitted against fact they are totally non relevant.
Scenario:
When Jason Momoa is on TV my lived experience is he is only talking to me and NOBODY else. Reality would suggest otherwise but we are playing their rules now so lets just abandon reality for a moment.
I get all upset when i tell my friends I am dating Jason Momoa and they all laugh at me, and I descend into a mental health crisis
Now....... whats the solution here
A: I go to a professional for help who tells me this is not reality and I am the problem, I get the help I need and re-integrate with society a healthier person
OR
B: I go to a professional who tells me "no no no honey this is your lived experience and they must accept this, Jason Momoa included" A Cancel culture is born and Jason Momoa ends up apologising to me which somehow validates the whole f**king farce
That is how outrageous this whole thing is, and unfortunately it stems from the "empowerment" of mental illness in young people because its easier to normalize it than accept it. There is no rationalising anymore, just straight out of the box insanity.