Your Lived Experience Is a Primary Source, Not a Verdict
Another really great post!
Being back in school got me writing again 😂
They may have been there when it happened. The truth is they see the event through their lived experience, to me and I could be wrong history is a conglomeration of lived experiences from other people too, of course there will be exceptions.
Exactly. They saw it from only one angle. With their privilege/bias acting as a lens.
And that's definitely one way to look at history. Pulling all those angles together and using them to pinpoint some kind of truth about the past.
Another really great post!
Being back in school got me writing again 😂
They may have been there when it happened. The truth is they see the event through their lived experience, to me and I could be wrong history is a conglomeration of lived experiences from other people too, of course there will be exceptions.
Exactly. They saw it from only one angle. With their privilege/bias acting as a lens.
And that's definitely one way to look at history. Pulling all those angles together and using them to pinpoint some kind of truth about the past.