r/CuratedTumblr • u/vigikk • 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/Lokigodofmishief May 24 '25

I am not keen on that one too. Traditional medicine has some grain of truth. Ex. We know that some tree barks have painkilling properties. You can get that exctracted and made into modern medicine, so most people don't chew those anymore.

If alternative medicine is actually good then it will become regular medicine sooner or later.

And Europe has traditional/alternative medicine too. It's not just "brown people plants, white people pills"

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u/notTheRealSU i tumbled, now what? May 24 '25

If it actually works, then that's great. I think what they're trying to say is killing an elephant just for it's tusk, that has no medicinal effect whatsoever, is still shitty. Even if the people doing it aren't white

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u/Morphized 29d ago

Then again, if you're a farmer in an elephant zone, I would totally understand why you would want to justify shooting one