Posted on 11/22/2015 2:23:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
University's free yoga class is shut down over 'cultural appropriation' fears after complaints from 'social justice warriors'
A free yoga class has been suspended after student leaders at a Canadian university are concerned the practice of it could be seen as 'cultural appropriation'.
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years, said she was notified in September that the program was being ended.
In an email from the Center for Students with Disabilities, staff wrote that while yoga is 'accessible and great for students', there are 'cultural issues of implication involved in the practice', the Ottawa Sun reported......
The center's staff said that yoga has been under 'a lot of controversy lately' as a result of how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are 'being taken from,' according to the Ottawa Sun.
Staff from the center also expressed that many of those cultures 'experienced oppression, cultural genocide and Diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy'...
Scharf, who works as a yoga teacher at the Ramas Lotus Center, said the concept of cultural appropriation does not apply in this case.
She told the Ottawa Sun that the complaint that caused the program to come to an end came from a 'social justice warrior' with 'fainting heart ideologies' in search of a controversial issue that would attract public attention.
Scharf claimed people are just searching for a reason to be offended by anything they can find, according to the website.
'There's a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon,' she said.
'And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things.'
Romeo Ahimakin, acting student federation president, dismissed the claim that the decision to suspend the program came as a result of a complaint....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“So, what are you majoring in at this university?”
“Simon-Says, with a minor in Mother-May-I?”
And from the Waste House, Turd One is directing the downward flow.
They have every right to jump on the bandwagon - and we have the right to kick these loons off.
Fer Chrisssakes, all it takes is for SOMEBODY in authority to grow a pair and this crap would be snuffed out. As long as these precious snowflakes get their way, it will only be wash, rinse and repeat.
bfl
I am convinced each day by the antics of mentally ill LIBs that the B movie IDIOCRACY was a documentary.
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