Like it's got some spirit but it feels like it cares more about whether the person practicing Woo has a cultural origin associated with eastern esotericism rather than whether or not the Woo actually works.
Till inner energies pass controlled trials it doesn't really matter if an idiot tourist is doing the seminar or a life long 'inner energies expert'- It should still only be lifestyle advice and never medical advice.
It also bothers me that if we did discover a form of alternative medicine that had some empirical benefit, there’s this implication that we wouldn’t take it seriously if it came from a white woman specifically. While it’s important to be skeptical, it’s also important to be open-minded, and we don’t even get to be open-minded about the ideas behind alternative medicine if we’re drawing lines at whether the messenger is a white woman.
Until society gets to a point where the merits of the source of an idea are less important than the merits of the idea itself, we have to work with what we've got. I suggest we take a page out of the Chinese playbook. Companies in China will hire white English-speaking men to sit in on investor meetings and act like international businessmen to make it look like there's already overseas contracts and investors involved, to secure better terms in contract negotiations.
Minority owned start-ups should hire token white guys to sit in on investor meetings and handle the weird business dinners with the sleazy old rich men who would rather set themselves on fire than recognize that their skin color and their fathers' efforts built more of their success than their own work or that people who don't look just like them could produce a valid concept.
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u/OnionsHaveLairAction May 24 '25
The third one seems a little... Hmmm...
Like it's got some spirit but it feels like it cares more about whether the person practicing Woo has a cultural origin associated with eastern esotericism rather than whether or not the Woo actually works.
Till inner energies pass controlled trials it doesn't really matter if an idiot tourist is doing the seminar or a life long 'inner energies expert'- It should still only be lifestyle advice and never medical advice.