#but perhaps it still isnt the right cultural moment for Europeans and other colonizers to criticize non-euro cultures and spiritualities

[fatfemmefreaquency]

Europeans criticizing the traditional spiritual practices of non-western cultural groups really be out here saying shit like “no this is my emotional support xenophobia/ racism/ eurocentrism/ orientalism. Let me call the non-westerners ‘primitive thinkers” and ‘anti-science’ as a treat”

maybe don’t? idk.

some of y’all need to learn to critically assess when other cultures’ cultural practices aren’t yours to dispute, interrogate, and/or criticize. (pretty much never. criticize your own culture and criticize white/ European culture—but critiquing the cultural behaviour of a culture that isn’t actively oppressing your own is just cultural imperialism and white saviorism masquerading as “discourse”)

if you’re writing from the west and with a western-centric perspective: perhaps just don’t. let other people—more qualified people with an emic (non-outsider) perspective on those cultures do the work.