Okay okay okay hang on a minute friends I gotta say something
The Pagan/Wiccan community is hella fucking appropriative and it drives me up the wall
I can’t walk in a single “Pagan” or “Wiccan” or “Witchy” store without badly made dream catchers, chakra necklaces and all sorts of culturally appropriative bullshit fucking EVERYWHERE
Chakra has no origin in Paganism or Wicca. It does not belong to either of those religions. Chakra is featured in many religious beliefs in Asia, including Hinduism, and was a practise commonly associated with Yoga, which, again, was a religious practise.
Both Yoga and Chakra have been appropriated by the white Pagan and Wiccan communities. Why? Oh I’ll fucking tell you. It’s because they were “exotic” to hippies. Paganism and Wicca was basically a quietened down religion for years after the persecution of witches in Europe and Americas until white hippies came around. Their ideas of “love and peace” were also strongly tied to the ideas of differing themselves from conventional society, so of course anything that was deemed “exotic” or “mystical” or “strange” was stolen by them and warped into a symbol of paganism or Wicca (which were “taboo” religions)
Buddha statues, Hindu gods and Native American symbols and dream catchers from different tribes/cultures, and Mexican sugar skulls have also been adopted by paganism. And while some of the more obscure ones may agree with some of their traditions beings appropriated, larger, well known religions and practises should not be featured in paganism and Wicca and I, speaking as a white pagan, am sick of it.
It’s not fair, it’s not right, it’s not respectful, and it’s not my religion. Paganism has been turned into a quirky patchwork of religions to be worn by other white Pagans as a badge of how different they are.
And then those same pagans and wiccans will complain when they hear “white people have no culture” all whilst wearing mini Buddhas on necklaces and sugar skulls printed on their Next t-shirts.
Guess what Inanna, guess what Drew, the “culture” you speak of we stole. And we have no rights to it.
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