8 Signs Your Yoga Practice Is Culturally Appropriated – And Why It Matters http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/05/yoga-cultural-appropriation/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare … via @evrydayfeminism
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Replying to @jessesingal
2/ These people live in a parallel universe woven with a different causal structure involving how harm occurspic.twitter.com/FSyqlXhglw
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Replying to @jessesingal
3/ If you buy into this garbage ideology, then you believe that a) things you do on your own, in private, are somehow *hurting* others,
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Replying to @jessesingal
4/ and that b) it is a form of meaningful activism to state, out loud, that you know where yogic practice comes from. It should not
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Replying to @jessesingal
5/5 surprise us that subcultures which fully embrace this garbage ideology are full of extremely neurotic and insufferable people.
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Replying to @jessesingal
does it surprise you the article says "If you’re white, there’s not necessarily anything wrong with you doing yoga. "
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Replying to @sschinke
Well but then it goes on to say that if you are missing cultural context, it's harmful for you to do yoga
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Replying to @jessesingal
it just says to be clear you're doing the physical exercise, not the spiritual practice. Small burden.pic.twitter.com/7vMk32ufi3
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Replying to @sschinke
This is so many degrees removed from anything that affects anyone's life in a material way. It's just pointless.
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Replying to @jessesingal
lots of race-related issues can seem that way from a position of privilege. Eg: The history of suppression by the British.
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That analogy makes no sense! Any reasonable person would see that suppressing a group of people is doing violence to them
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