Professor: White people who do yoga guilty of ‘power, privilege, and oppression’

College Fix ^ | January 26, 2018 | Kyle Perisic

[C19fan]

A professor of religious studies at Michigan State University recently argued that white people who practice yoga are guilty of enjoying a “system of power, privilege, and oppression.”

[C19fan]

India is now a power in cricket. Does that mean they engaged in the crime of cultural appropriation from the British?

[BitWielder1]

If you're white you can't do right.

(I should copyright that :)

[Paladin2]

Too bad we can’t track H->!’s Yoga schedules....

[Leep]

Those pesky white people are at it again.

[HotHunt]

Gawd! Yoga is racist now?

When will the white bashing stop?

This professor doesn't sound smart enough to have actually graduated from university.

And I can guarantee you that the old saying, "If they can't make it in the real world, then they teach college" is applicable to this guy.

[RightGeek]

You should!

[albie]

I thought it was just people who wanted to stretch and stuff.

[Eagles6]

Yep.

And the author culturally appropriated her computer, the English language, the automobile, central heating, AC...etc...

Give 'em back, b****!

[windsorknot]

Another brilliant professor weighs in as a lightweight.

[RegulatorCountry]

I know I’d feel pretty oppressed in a room full of middle aged to elderly women all doing the wind relieving pose simultaneously. There’s not enough ventilation in the world, it does exactly what it sounds like it would do.

[LRoggy]

Under this professor’s reasoning Tiger Woods would be a racist

[oldplayer]

What’s wrong with yogi anyway?

[SoftballMominVA]

Article says yoga belongs to “Indian Women.” Goes to show someone knows nothing. It was perpetuated by Indian men.

[Little Ray]

Power, privilege, and oppression!
We should revel in it!

[Hoffer Rand]

“… 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? Despite our best values and intentions as individuals, our actions (and inaction) are inherently connected with a system of power, privilege, and oppression.”

IOW, it's not OK for Bruce Jenner to do yoga, but it is OK for Caitlin Jenner to do yoga. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Just change the label and a little of the packaging, and voila, now, you're good to go! I'm not the first to say, and I won't be the last. These people are nuts.

[gubamyster]

For whatever reason, my kids’ high school baseball team started yoga 1 day a week during the preseason. So my kids are guilty of enjoying a “system of power, privilege, and oppression”, but the Mexican kids doing it next to him are not?

[oldplayer]

I read the entire article. Any person versed in rational thought, and who has a sense of humor, cannot read this article without snickering. It throws in, almost at random, every cliché of academia that you have heard.

[WayneS]

No, it just means they were seeking the meaning of the word eternity...

[RightGeek]

UhOh! What about yoga pants?

[Pearls Before Swine]

If you're white you can't do right.

(I should copyright that :)

I'll pay royalties. It's a keeper.