I was listening to the Delingpole Podcast yesterday, his recent interview with Bret Weinstein and his wife, Heather. While understandably not everyone is a fan of the pair, Bret mentioned something that stunned me because I wish I had thought of it. Prior to COVID, no how many facts and statistics and science you threw at some people, usually leftists, their trump card to ignore it was their own "lived experience."
"Lived experience" allowed them to look past data showing America wasn't systematically racist, or that women weren't oppressed. He also pointed out that, today, just as then, you throw facts, statistics, historical comparisons, and "see I told you so" stuff (mycarditis and endless boosters) about the covid shot and it bounces off their armor of cognitive dissonance.
But what's REALLY telling, is that when you use your own, or others, "lived experience" about the covid vax, now the covid cultists are telling us "lived experience" doesn't count for anything. Witness what happened to Eric Clapton, a man who makes a living using his hands...and he almost lost the use of them due to the coof vax. His story is real, undeniable, powerful, and personal. It was also heartbreaking, both in what happened to him but how people denied his "lived experience" as not valid evidence.
Still, I use the fact that I have two close relatives that took the shot and suffered for it. There may be more, but only two are willing to speak about it. One has severe joint pain now, first time in his life, and the other, she has necropathy in her extremities. She's now on SS disability. This is real, "lived experience" that I have shared with others when the subject of the vax comes up.
That's partially the point Bret was making. The "lived experience" as undeniable proof of X or Y, despite all evidence to the contrary, was indeed born out of fake news or propaganda. Or in fairness, perhaps one anecdote by the black guy about getting pulled over by the cops gets spun into "all cops are racist" stuff and "the man" is out to get him. The person may actually have been pulled over by the cops, but that's about it.
The irony is that my lived experiences, or Eric Clapton's, or anyone who had a bad reaction to the jab, is being downplayed as not real, or trivial, via the same outlets that told you in 2019 that "lived experiences" were the ultimate evidence of anything, no matter what statistics Ben Shapiro would bring to the table telling you cops shoot more white people per capita or some shit like that.