Wait for it...Yoga is now promoting white supremacy...

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January 29, 2018, 07:42 PM

JDHunz

Wait for it...Yoga is now promoting white supremacy...

Guess I’d better tell my Yoga-teaching wife...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018...rofessor-claims.html

January 29, 2018, 07:48 PM

SIG4EVA

I wonder how Indians feel about it.

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January 29, 2018, 07:51 PM

esdunbar

I do yoga once a week as part of my fitness program. I do it because I love the stretch it gives me and it helps with core strength and balance.

However, if it pisses off a liberal, well, that’s just a bonus

I’ll “appropriate” whatever I damn well please deary. Mmkay?

January 29, 2018, 07:51 PM

Rey HRH

Hey hey, Booboo! We're being called racists now!"

Yeah, yoga. The one started by them brown skinned people over in India? It's racist?

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

January 29, 2018, 07:53 PM

craigcpa

Well, it's a Michigan State University article with as much credibility to it as Larry Nassar.

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January 29, 2018, 07:55 PM

Palm

Serious question: who are the "people of the global South" referenced in that article? Also "cisheteropatriarchy."

January 29, 2018, 07:56 PM

Strambo

That's why when I do it, I just call it "stretching".

Saves awkward (for them) conversations with SJWs at the Gym.

Wait, I've never had a Gym membership, look I'm already checkin' my privelage!

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January 29, 2018, 07:59 PM

TMats

Huh. I’ll have to tell my wife. She’ll be so disappointed.

January 29, 2018, 08:01 PM

TigerDore

"Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State". - She needs to give back the culturally-appropriated laptop on which she tapped out her screed, along with her culturally-appropriated smart phone.

January 29, 2018, 08:02 PM

P-220

I knew it, I just knew it.

Jesus, what next?

January 29, 2018, 08:06 PM

mark123

Shreena Gandhi looks to be Caucasian. What's this all about? She is white people.

January 29, 2018, 08:11 PM

Lord Vaalic

Hey Ghandi... You are appropriating white culture from Ann Arbor and the Native Americans that once lived in Michigan. And, I hope you eat nothing but Indian food and drive a car by Tata Motors, and what the fuck are you even doing here in our country appropriating our American-ness?

Choke on a bag of rhino dicks you worthless excuse for a human. Truly go fuck off and die and make the world a better place.

January 29, 2018, 08:29 PM

ensigmatic

quote:

“Especially during this time when the underbelly of capitalism — white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and xenophobia – is being exposed, it is imperative that everyone, especially those who have access to spiritual practices like yoga, ask difficult questions of ourselves and one another,” the two concluded. “We must ask, in what ways are we complicit in a system that harms people of color, queer and trans people, poor people, people with disabilities, and immigrants?”

Hahahhahahahahaha!

No.

Bugger off, y'loon.

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January 29, 2018, 08:43 PM

RAMIUS

January 29, 2018, 08:44 PM

Fenris

Prior to this, I had zero interest in yoga.

Now, I may reconsider.

January 29, 2018, 08:48 PM

Fenris

Europeans invented shoes.

NO ON ELSE GETS TO WEAR SHOES.

Take off your shoes all you non-European cultural appropriaters.

January 29, 2018, 08:49 PM

darthfuster

...so what do yoga pants promote?

January 29, 2018, 08:51 PM

zoom6zoom

Tell 'em to get bent.

January 29, 2018, 08:58 PM

sigmonkey

quote:
Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I wonder how Indians feel about it.

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