Your political opinions are disjointed; the positions you hold in no way line up with the labels you apply to yourself. When you talk about politics, it sounds like someone live-tweeting the writer's room at Last Week Tonight on a particularly unproductive day.
Your every thought was spoon-fed to you by a group of propagandists who want you dead. Every conversation we have feels to me like digging through a pile of excrement looking to find out what a sick animal had for its last meal. That's how distasteful it is, finding the regurgitated chunks of headline you half-understood, and how easy it is to identify the corny chunks of Sam Bee tweets and blood-red WaPo opinion column titles.
When you asked me to read a technical manual and summarize it for you, I empathized with your learning disorder and helped you out - don't you goddamn dare claim what little you've read of contemporary politics or current events is even on the same plane of validity as my own. When you patronizingly say "No one is entitled to their own facts", I agree, but you mean the ones you were given rather than than the Truth. You imagine yourself a free-thinker, a scientist, and the truth is you question nothing and do not think at all.
I know you're trying to justify your position in the company during layoff season, but I have half a mind to make your job look unnecessary instead of helping you prove how necessary it is, even knowing it will make my own long days even longer.
I doubt I'm the only one who ends a day at work feeling like this. If you read it, thanks for listening to me vent.
Out of curiosity, what other kind of experiences are there?
If you weren't aware, "lived experiences" and "personal truth" are concepts, descended from post modern philosophy, that critical race theory and intersectional feminism like to use to give legitimacy to bullshit claims that aren't reflected by reality.
If a woman complains about how our society is a misogynist patriarchy because she feels unsafe to walk alone, and you point out the fact that men are actually much more likely to be assaulted than women, the you are a bad person for invalidating her "lived experiences" and "personal truth".
If we take a black woman from a wealthy family, who went to a fantastic school, was admitted to a prestigious university and given a scholarship because of her skin color, and hired to a cushy job at a company trying to improve their "diversity" ... if that woman claims she has been oppressed by systemic racism, without any evidence to support these claims whatsoever, we're not allowed to question it because the oppression is her "personal truth" based on her "lived experiences".