Yeah, I don't know what that means, either. Here's a
link to the whole thing, but you're not going to be any more enlightened once you've read it. The gist of it is that the University of Ottawa decided that yoga classes for disabled students were triggering colonialist cultural appropriation cooties or something.
The yoga instructor was trying to be sensitive, so she suggested:
“What do you think about having a class that is just stretching for mental health?” she wrote. “We don’t have to call it yoga (because that’s not really what we are doing, we are just stretching). I think that will work because it would literally change nothing about the class. … I know some people are offended but I am sure we can change it so that everyone feels included.... Now that I am aware that this is a sensitivity, I can just leave all yoga-ness out.”
Not so fast, running dog colonialist person of uncolor. The purge must go deeper than that.
“The higher-ups at the student federation got involved, finally we got an e-mail routed through the student federation basically saying they couldn’t get a French name and nobody wants to do it, so we’re going to cancel it for now....”
Stop appropriating other people's culture!
ReplyDeleteSo shouted the SJW thought police.
On the upside, I thought the "Gandhi takes a yoga class" video was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteWesterners are actually beginning to deconstruct or reverse engineer Indian prana and Chinese bone washing methods.
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From the comments: Let's ban water because the hydrogen atoms are doubling up against the oxygen atoms.
ReplyDelete“I would never want anyone to think I was making some sort of spiritual claim other than the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone free of religion.”
ReplyDeleteSomehow I find it difficult to feel too bad for this girl (no, not young woman). Apparently only those who are "free of religion" feel the "pure joy of being human". Should I file a claim that she's committing a micro-aggression against Muslim students?
She probably meant that the joy is free of religion, i.e., that anyone can feel it without regard to religion. Clarity of speech is not apparently among her virtues.
ReplyDeleteOf course, doubtless these folks would read anything we wrote in the most damning way possible rather than the most charitable. Still, if only on the 'know thy enemy' principle....
I wondered what she meant, too: was she trying to say "the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone without regard to whatever religion he might or might not profess"?
ReplyDeleteThere is no 'understanding' that which is only meant to be felt.
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