Posted on 10/09/2015 10:35:10 AM PDT by bryan999
If it's illegal and considered racist for a white, straight business owner to deny service to a gay person or person of color, shouldn't the same be true for a yoga class that bars white people from attending?
KIRO Radio's Dori Monson thinks so.
Rainier Beach Yoga in Seattle has a class called "yoga for people of color." It started last week and runs once a month.
Teresa Wang, co-founder of the specialized class, said it was started by five queer people of color who came together to create a safe space for people of color who might otherwise be uncomfortable.
An email blast about the class says it's aimed at people of color and of all sexualities, ages, body sizes, abilities, genders, and experience with yoga. It specifically identifies "lesbian, bisexual, gay, queer and trans-friendly/affirming," plus people who self-identify as "African American/black/of the African Diaspora, Asian, South Asian, West Asian/Arab/Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander, First Nations/Alaskan Native/Native American/Indigenous, Chican/Latin, or Multiracial/Mixed-Race." The email adds that "white friends, allies and partners are respectfully asked not to attend."
So what would happen if a white man decided to attend?
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
Well Constitutions and the so called “Civil Rights” laws, statutes and ordinances do say “no person” don’t they?
Unless whites and males aren’t “persons” any more . . .which is what much of the left thinks
As long as their own interests (or those of Little Darlins’) aren’t being threatened
I’m not transparent. I have colour.
Yes, they have a Facebook page and yes, people are lashing out on it.
So far though, these hypocrites haven’t made any sort of apology or pull date class or anything... I guess they could give a bleep what anyone thinks....?
.... White is a color ....
It isn’t white anyway. It is more like peach or light orange.
So far though, these hypocrites haven’t made any sort of apology or pull date class or anything... I guess they could give a bleep what anyone thinks....?
Of course they do, and they're getting exactly what they want. They're pushing their entitlement envelope and jerking on people's chains just to see how much they can get away with. If anyone tries to stop them, they'll raise a stink you'll be running to the nearest rendering plant trying to escape.
I have a problem with transexual names...
What, his momma really expected a gril?
I’d bet that what was happening was the majority of the class were white hetero libs who wanted to show how “inclusive and supportive” they were.
I’ll never get over how “queer” has been rehabilitated as a politically correct word. (Except when I use it, probably. I suppose there is a three-page definition of how, when, and on whom to use it that I haven’t seen yet.)
.... Well ..... it used to be called "Flesh" color ...... and I believe the color "Boehner" is the new Orange.
Five queer people of color walk into a yoga class .... stop me if you’ve heard this.
Is anyone else besides me getting tired of this safe space bullshit, like gays or trannies are being assaulted all the time? Especially in a yoga class? Who knows or cares whether you are gay or tranny in a yoga class? The answer is NOBODY.
Sure, give them special safe “people of color only” water fountains too.
For people who can't swim.
I care, Lizavetta.
If I was a white customer here...I'd leave and go to a different place.
A safe space is a space where failures gather without having successful people around, because the mere presence of a successful person reminds them that they are failures.
Is “people of color” the same as “colored people”?
What if you self identify as a colored person? Will that get you in?
this is the perfect time for some one to go be denied service and sue under the Oregon law. that went after the bakery. if I lived locally I would do it myself
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