Joseph what I heard in the yeshiva was that everything, or almost everything has value. Some “western concoctions” are very reasonable. It’s just that they don’t stand above everything else.
For example it IS reasonable that women should get equal pay as men. It IS reasonable that a woman can turn to the law if she is sexually harrased. It IS reasonable that people should get equal oppurtunities regardless of their skin colour.
The reason western ideas have taken such an hold on our minds is because they actually make sense to us, not because we were brainwashed.
We should not put the values of equalitiy and human rights above everything else, but we also shiuldn’t ignore them just because they are the only things western sociaty cares about.