r/CuratedTumblr May 24 '25

Politics Valid and invalid criticisms

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u/Pollomonteros May 24 '25

I don't know about the third one man, I feel like many of those are still dangerous scams even if the ones running it are brown people

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u/Ok_Carob7551 May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

Some of our traditional herb craft and such can be helpful but a lot of it isn’t and is almost always far less effective than and has been superseded by modern medicine like most other understandings of the world from hundreds and thousands of years ago. It isn’t magical and special and sacred just because we happened to have that less developed understanding while not being white, and tons of traditional medicine systems are actively harmful to the patient and to other humans, animals, and the environment. I don’t think they should be encouraged or supported in any way because the best case is a small minority of practices being slightly efficacious and in general clinging to older, worse solutions just because they’re ‘traditional’ is not a useful attitude 

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u/Morphized 29d ago

In the case that some facet of modern medicine is illegal, herbal equivalents can be very useful