So, now yoga is racist

[Angel Eyes]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/29/americans-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy-michigan-state-university-professor-claims.html

Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State, claims in an article she recently co-authored that Americans who practice yoga are contributing to white supremacy and promote the “yoga industrial complex.”

Seems that white folks doing yoga has Shreena all tied up in knots ...

[BobR]

acknowledge the cultural appropriation they engage in and possibly reduce the cost of yoga classes for poor people, a group that often includes people of color and “recent immigrants, such as Indian women to whom this practice rightfully belongs,” Gandhi argued.

Well, there you go, just trying to guilt people into giving away more (nearly) free stuff to the poor downtrodden masses who just can't afford the high cost of wellness.

I get so confused at times. We are a nation of immigrants and should be embracing the concepts immigrants bring to our society yet when we do there is always some whack job ready to yell "cultural misappropriation".   

it's getting to where you need a play book to figure out what is OK and what is not. :(

bob

[griz]

I think when this professor engages in free speech she is appropriating the culture that rightly belongs to me.

[just Warren]

They knead to get bent.

[mtnbkr]

When white Americans adopt "designated shitting streets", she can get upset about cultural appropriation. 

Chris

[Ben]

When white Americans adopt "designated shitting streets", she can get upset about cultural appropriation. 

Chris

I think somebody around here at one time posted a link to "scenes of India",  I guess is as good a term as any. That was as good a definition of "shithole country" as anything. I mean, people were washing up in a river as a dead and bloated human body floated by. I'm happy to not culturally appropriate crap like that. Holy hell.

[230RN]

I suspect the fas have planted agents in the antifas community to come up with stuff like that just to make the antifas look ridiculous.

Just a suspicion.

Terry

[RoadKingLarry]

I suspect the fas have planted agents in the antifas community to come up with stuff like that just to make the antifas look ridiculous.

Just a suspicion.

Terry

That would be pretty much a waste of effort. They manage to look stupid all by themselves.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Well, she better get mad at the Sikhs and the Buddhists, who also appropriated yoga from the Hindus.


*snort* I would also suggest she take a closer *expletive deleted*ing look at the religious traditions and history of her own people before getting snotty about white people doing yoga. Of all people, Indians have absolutely NOOOOO room to talk about abusing the lower classes.

[K Frame]

Does that mean foreigners who come here to work are appropriating American culture and jobs?

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[MechAg94]

My coworker said his daughter-in-law teaches yoga classes.  I was shocked at how much she charged per person and that people would pay that much.  Do you really need to take classes on this?  

[MechAg94]

On the other hand, please keep this type of stuff going.  I think it the cultural desensitization of the word "racist" is long overdue. 

[Firethorn]

My coworker said his daughter-in-law teaches yoga classes.  I was shocked at how much she charged per person and that people would pay that much.  Do you really need to take classes on this?  

Depends on motivation, personal talent, and reason.

For some, yoga is a way to get put of the house and socialize with others.

Also, having somebody there to encourage you and correct forms is good as well.

[dogmush]

I'm not much of a socializer, but I uses several different yoga DVD's to make sure my form is correct, and I don't hurt what's left of my joints.

There was money spent there.

[RoadKingLarry]

For some, yoga is a way to get put of the house and socialize with others.

That's what beer and sailing is for.

[Ben]

I'm not much of a socializer, but I uses several different yoga DVD's to make sure my form is correct, and I don't hurt what's left of my joints.

There was money spent there.

That's exactly what I did when I learned. Outside of the "socializing" aspect, proper yoga technique can be pretty easily picked up off DVDs as long as you make an effort to pay attention to form.

Besides, back when I started up, I was still in Santa Barbara. You can imagine the social makeup of yoga classes there. Even seeing hot women in yoga apparel can only go so far.

[Hawkmoon]

Well, she better get mad at the Sikhs and the Buddhists, who also appropriated yoga from the Hindus.

She also needs to do her homework. Americans (and westerners in general) didn't exactly appropriate yoga -- Indian practitioners exported it.

[makattak]

She also needs to do her homework. Americans (and westerners in general) didn't exactly appropriate yoga -- Indian practitioners exported it.

It's like the "appropriating of Mexican food."

I'm fairly certain that many Mexican (or Mexican-descended) proprietors of Mexican restaurants will be very angry if white people stop "appropriating" Mexican food. Not to mention the servers, bus-boys, bartenders, etc....

These people are nuts.

[MechAg94]

I'm not much of a socializer, but I uses several different yoga DVD's to make sure my form is correct, and I don't hurt what's left of my joints.

There was money spent there.

The number I heard was North of $100 per person per session.  I doubt those DVD's cost that much. 

[cordex]

I utterly reject the modern leftist goal of racial and ethnic segregation.

[Firethorn]

I'm fairly certain that many Mexican (or Mexican-descended) proprietors of Mexican restaurants will be very angry if white people stop "appropriating" Mexican food. Not to mention the servers, bus-boys, bartenders, etc...

Same with Chinese food.  Yes, US "chinese" isn't very chinese, but it was generally the Chinese people themselves adjusting their recipes to match with ingredient availability here in the USA as well as matching up with our palate better.

Kind of like how Chicago deep dish pizza is different than NY style pizza, which is a little different than Italian pizza.

I utterly reject the modern leftist goal of racial and ethnic segregation.

Agreed.  I keep hoping the minorities will wake up to this fact some day.  Of course, I keep hoping that the right wingers would be a little more inclusive - we need all the people we can get, even if they aren't 100% ideologically pure.

[Scout26]

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it's getting to where you need a play book to figure out what is OK and what is not. :(

bob

Easy-peasy:  Everything not banned is mandatory....

[230RN]

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Quote from: cordex

I utterly reject the modern leftist goal of racial and ethnic segregation.

Agreed.  I keep hoping the minorities will wake up to this fact some day.  Of course, I keep hoping that the right wingers would be a little more inclusive - we need all the people we can get, even if they aren't 100% ideologically pure.

Wow.  cordex, you nailed that. They want segregation versus integration depending on what suits the overall agenda of the moment.  Very insightful.

And Firethorn's comment about being more inclusive was especially on target.  Internecine squabbles only dilute our efforts to bring things back to reality.  The Leftists have us beat on that account.  Basically, they're all of one antlike <ahem> "mind," sniffing along the DNC's line of pheromones.



Terry

[HankB]

So now yoga classes are bad because of cultural appropriation? 

Interesting how some of those who decry "cultural appropriation" are themselves the product of cultures that have no historical tradition of using things like aspirin, shoes, pants, automobiles, airplanes, electricity, modern dentistry, soap, indoor plumbing, telephones, window glass, or toilet paper.

And they get mighty upset  when you point that out when they denounce things like white women wearing hoop earrings. (Which were worn in ancient Rome 2000 years ago, and by the Sumerians 4,600 years ago.)