University cancels free yoga class because of "oppression, cultural genocide."

[Pushxx]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/23/university-yoga-class-canceled-because-of-oppression-cultural-genocide/


u[/COLOR]ck University']“Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately... Many of these cultures are cultures that have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy, and we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves and while practicing yoga.”

The University claimed to have gotten complains that yoga has implications of oppression. You can read more in the article if you want to, but that's the gist of it. The women, who ran the free yoga class for 7 years, was teased by saying she could do the class if she called it something else, but they didn't end up letting her even do that.

The Rebel wrote something in response I liked: “The day yoga needs a safe space is the day parody meets reality. That day has come.”

SAFE SPACES!! AAAAHH!
http://s2.postimg.org/88vnsiqax/south_park_s07e10c04_get_off_the_streets_16x9.jpg

[Nick Young]

****ing retarded. Do you think any Indians are out there upset that non-Indians practice yoga?

Why are racist PC ****s so obsessed with racially segregating everyone? "Only Mexicans are allowed to serve and eat mexican food and wear sombreros!"

"Only Indians can practice yoga!"

:facepalm

[warriorfan]

personally ive always looked upon yoga as a rape of the indian people, this is a great step forward

[Hawker]

India goes mad for cricket. I don't think they're too hung up on the past. Yoga is fantastic for flexibility and core strength. This encourages sedentary lifestyles by cancelling the class.

[Nick Young]

I can imagine reading this headline in a satirical comedy novel written in the 60s.

Huxley and Bradbury and Orwell knew this censorship shit was coming 50 years before it came.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

...a yoga class designed to include disabled students...
Seriously, who thought that ruining this was a good idea?

[Pushxx]

Seriously, who thought that ruining this was a good idea?

I think you can imagine what they look like.

[kNIOKAS]

I can totally see how women in tight yoga pants is likely to incite some "oppresssion" and "western civilization", if you're talking about my would-be people.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/c2f7a52102a57dec86319cf6a1449de4/tumblr_nxf4jmcSMD1s0f2c5o1_500.jpg

http://41.media.tumblr.com/f1c5f61f13bde9672ab4c0bfa976b355/tumblr_o0uz9fNiCk1s0f2c5o1_500.png

http://36.media.tumblr.com/b22cead9f8f3e122e7d434f9e7a2f9d7/tumblr_nx4eav0r3j1s0f2c5o1_500.jpg

[NumberSix]

The funny thing is, actual racists are probably like "good. don't teach that shit over here".

Leftist weirdos somehow always manage to be on the same side as racists and segregationists.

[gigantes]

i think i see how this works: an understaffed student center is hit by too many complaints about something and in the litigious age of today, doesn't have the time and energy to fight a battle over this.

it doesn't matter that the protestors don't know what the f-ck they're talking about. they simply took advantage of a timeless story across natural law-- when deceitfulness and manipulation out-compete the status quo.

might makes right, so to speak.

[JohnnySic]

Fukc yoga. India should bring back the thuggees. Those were some cool dudes.

[Jailblazers7]

Do any of these "controversies" extend beyond college campus? When was the last time you heard people up in arms about yoga being culturally appropriated outside of news reports like this?

[Dresta]

I think it's time to start flogging kids again.

[UK2K]

Do any of these "controversies" extend beyond college campus? When was the last time you heard people up in arms about yoga being culturally appropriated outside of news reports like this?

Well, unfortunately, those same people up in arms about yoga on college campuses will be in the workforce in a few short years.

You think their whiny, ***** behavior will suddenly stop once they graduate?

[Jasi]

WTF?
I don't understand. Can someone explain? What's wrong with yoga? Who's offended by people practicing yoga?

[BurningHammer]

Yoga exercise is a glorified stretching exercise anyway.

[Nick Young]

Do any of these "controversies" extend beyond college campus? When was the last time you heard people up in arms about yoga being culturally appropriated outside of news reports like this?
These retards are going to graduate college soon where they'll get jobs and bring their retarded ideas with them.

[Nick Young]

Yoga exercise is a glorified stretching exercise anyway.
That's exactly what it is, it's stretching and strengthening, you can get shredded from it.

[gigantes]

WTF?
I don't understand. Can someone explain? What's wrong with yoga? Who's offended by people practicing yoga?
those who get angry for any particular reason. (the reason hardly ever matters)

law of nature is this-- when people get offended or angry, that tends to give them energy and self-righteousness. that can be a very powerful motivator and self-energiser.

problem is that such folks tend to live from fix to fix, as you can observe right on ISH across a multiplicity of dipshits and blowhards.

[Jailblazers7]

These retards are going to graduate college soon where they'll get jobs and bring their retarded ideas with them.

Or reality will punch them in the mouth and they will grow up. I'm only 25 and I'm much less ideological and sensitive than I was at 22. I feel like people my age still living at home for so long after college stunted some people and made them more like to cling to a different form of self-identity.

I feel like people will mellow but still have the same racial/cultural perspectives in the near to mid future.

[Nick Young]

Or reality will punch them in the mouth and they will grow up. I'm only 25 and I'm much less ideological and sensitive than I was at 22. I feel like people my age still living at home for so long after college stunted some people and made them more like to cling to a different form of self-identity.

I feel like people will mellow but still have the same racial/cultural perspectives in the near to mid future.
The coddled rich ones who never have to see the real world will remain as they are. Unfortunately, these are the ones who often are heads of massive tech startups or who go on to become career politicians.


It is already happening in Silicon Valley, and has been that way for close to half a decade now.

[jongib369]

Posted it a few times, but this sketch sums it up perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPaLCuXjT8

Which is probably loosely based off this (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html?_r=0) a bit

"The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments “troubling” or “triggering,” a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and “sexual assault peer educator” who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point she went to the lecture hall — it was packed — but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,” Ms. Hall said."

[jongib369]

TRIGGER WARNINGS -- We the Internet Sketch 1
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrTGZSPajI)


WeTheInternet takes on "trigger warnings." Because college is for learning new things. And also protecting you from those things.


:roll: :roll: :roll:

[Verticality]

I'm so confused right now.