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Dori has a problem with 'yoga for people of color' class
MY Northwest ^ | October 7, 2015 @ 10:30 pm

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; peopleofcolor; qpoc; queer; queerpeopleofcolor; yoga
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To: bryan999

That is illegal and unconstitutional.


21 posted on 10/09/2015 11:27:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: bryan999

Nice to see the Left asserting Freedom of Association again after all these decades.

Does that mean we can repeal Brown V. Board of Education?


22 posted on 10/09/2015 11:30:14 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: bryan999
... to create a safe space ...

This right here is all you need to know about who/what is behind it.

23 posted on 10/09/2015 12:15:43 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: bryan999
Are they cashing in by raising the class prices for their special clientele? After all, it must be expensive to provide protection against all those yoga thugs.😱
24 posted on 10/09/2015 12:29:01 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: bryan999

You know, if they want a segregated group, let them have it. But just let whites, Christians, and conservatives, do the same thing without fear of lawsuits. Fair enough?


25 posted on 10/09/2015 1:57:57 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: bryan999
"safe space"

Do whites, Christians, and conservatives also have a right to "safe spaces" were they won't encounter alternative, potentially judgmental, views? Not according to out maniacal Obama Supreme Court.
26 posted on 10/09/2015 2:01:02 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: R_Kangel
".... White is a color …."

White is the combination of all colors. Black is the absence of color. Or so I was told at the art institute….

27 posted on 10/09/2015 2:04:50 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: tacticalogic

they’ll raise a stink


Their cocks?


28 posted on 10/09/2015 2:29:47 PM PDT by chasio649 (The GOPe can never seem to remember who brought them to the dance)
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To: Genoa

You care what the sex life of your yoga classmates are? Seriously?


29 posted on 10/09/2015 2:52:09 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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The way you can tell if they are diverse people of color is if they have brown eyes and brown hair like 90% of the rest of earths population


30 posted on 10/09/2015 3:58:00 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Lizavetta

I care who I’m bending over in front of.


31 posted on 10/10/2015 10:54:16 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Calvin Cooledge
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.

Excellent definition! Saved for future reference.

32 posted on 10/12/2015 3:59:04 AM PDT by Moltke
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