[anothercoup]

> And, tbh, democracy, freedom of speech, and gender equality are pretty great values to endorse.

But none of those are "innately" Western. Most of the current West do not have free speech. Western civilization ( going back to socrates ) has been against democracy. Not to mention western civilization has been against gender equality.

The values you listed are actually innately anti-western values counter to 3000 years of western tradition.

If you argued for latin, greek language, history, civilization,culture ( something actually innately western ), then I'd agree.