Abstract This paper considers a certain genre of anti-racist solidarity — what I call simulations of lived experience – in order to critically examine the premises and pitfalls of such efforts. Two primary examples are examined: (1) a 2014 smartphone app called Everyday Racism, where users are invited to ‘play’ a racialised character for a week in order to ‘better understand’ the experience of racism; and (2) various iterations of ‘Hijab Day’, where non-Muslim women are invited to wear a hijab for a day. I argue that both examples, while well-intentioned, offer only a ‘thin’ version of the lived experience of veiled Muslim women and people of colour, failing to reckon with the epistemological and phenomenological complexity entailed in this embodied experience. Moreover, I argue that both proceed on the misguided idea that first-hand experience, rather than empathic listening, is generative of anti-racist solidarity, and in doing so, these efforts risk reproducing the very structures and habits of white privilege they set out to challenge.

中文翻译：

---

模拟种族主义和仇视伊斯兰的生活经历：“怀抱移情”与政治旅游

摘要本文考虑了某种反种族主义团结的形式，即我所谓的对生活经验的模仿，以便严格审查这种努力的前提和陷阱。我们考察了两个主要示例：（1）2014年一款名为Everyday Racism的智能手机应用程序，在该应用程序中，邀请用户“玩”一个种族角色一个星期，以便“更好地了解”种族主义的体验；（2）“盖头日”的各种迭代，邀请非穆斯林妇女戴头巾一天。我认为，尽管这两个例子都是出于善意，但它们仅提供了蒙面纱的穆斯林妇女和有色人种生活经历的“瘦身”版本，而没有考虑到这种体现的体验所带来的认识论和现象学的复杂性。此外，我认为两者都是基于误导性的观点，即亲身经历，