This is why I keep saying that the concepts of hate speech and incitement to violence should be abandoned entirely. For as long as they exist, people who describe themselves as “Activist/neuroqueer. Former Lived Experience Worker” (does anybody know what fresh hell that is, by the way?) will declare reality hateful and inciting and persecute anybody who notices it.
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“Former Lived Experience Worker”
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“Used to have a job once”
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Ah! I thought it was something whorish. Maybe that was the former job.
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I thought about it, but… then it didn’t fit with the great huge effort to destigmatize whoring. Would’ve called it “sex work” or something? If they’ve gone back to using weird euphemisms for it, I guess the destigmatization has failed. That might be progress!
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“Former Lived Experience Worker”
Have people forgotten how to use google?
“A mental health Lived Experience/Peer worker is someone who is employed in a role that requires them to have lived experience of mental health challenges and periods of healing and or recovery. This can be either personal lived experience or as carer or family of someone who experiences mental health challenges.”
In other words, someone who works with crazy people who either has been crazy themselves (but less crazy now presumably) or has had to take care of crazy people (or had them in their family).
Seems to be an Australian term.
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Using google is less fun than guessing 😀
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“Using google is less fun than guessing”
For a while, then my curiosity gets the better of me and I want to test my guesses… Mine was it was some kind of ‘peer’ help: “I can help you, jobless loser, because I too was once a jobless loser, now my job is dealing with jobless losers, like you!”
Hadn’t realized it was more about crazy.
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I thought this was something she invented to sound important, to be honest. The possibility of there being more than one such people did not occur.
Once one realizes that “experience” is a favorite neoliberal term, one begins to notice it everywhere. Neoliberals put it in the most bizarre places.
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I’m Australian and never heard of it, but most of those Google hits are Australian, so it must have come from us…
I guessed it might refer to someone who is responsible for improving the “lived experience” of another person, but instead it apparently means someone (like a psychologist or social worker) who personally has experience of whatever condition (like mental illness or homelessness) their patients/clients also have.
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P.S. “peer worker” is a much better-sounding term
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It’s quite a bizarre idea that a neurotic wants to be treated by an therapist with the same neurosis.
Of course, many neurotics don’t want to get better, so they might seek somebody like this woman.
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“Multiculturism is our strength.”
“Ok, let us quantify multiculturism in our area.”
“This is a clear incitement to racial tension and worse.”
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Whatever they’re doing is good, because they’re doing it.
Don’t you dare ask for details.
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Yes, but what’s a “neuroqueer bluestocking” and why would she choose to call herself that in this day and age?
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““neuroqueer bluestocking”
I’m not going to bother looking that one up but my first guess: another word for Attention Whore…
Or maybe she’s just trying to create a personal brand by combining random words…
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My mother used to call me a bluestocking when I was young.
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Or maybe she’s just trying to create a personal brand by combining random words…
Thank you Cliff, I laughed so hard at your answer!
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