Lived experience is a source of truth. Denying individual points of view is denying truth. Obviously if you add all those stories up they become rich data about the human experience. Essentially by denying it for a long time we’ve been saying, “It’s just too hard to integrate all this information!” It comes across to me as a bunch of people saying “I can’t figure this out, therefore no one can!” People are grasping at truth, and they are making sense doing so.
That’s different than saying, “Enh, whatever I think goes.” Which is a lot closer to what the Harper’s letter signers are saying.than what people who talk about lived experience being valid are saying.
