Lived experience, as Critical Social Justice uses the term, refers specifically to one’s life experiences in allegedly systemic power dynamics of dominance and oppression that shape society structurally as understood with a critical consciousness and interpreted through Theory.

White complicity is the idea that all white people, regardless of their intentions, are complicit in racism and white supremacy and thus bear some responsibility for it.

While the usual definition of racism is partially recognized within Critical Social Justice, under its purview, "racism" means something different, or at least something more—and more vague.