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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Replying to @sschinke
if I do yoga, it makes zero difference whether or not I acknowledge it as a spiritual practice
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Replying to @jessesingal
if you do "yoga" exercise w/o acknowledgement and condone others doing it, it continues to be marketed as such
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Replying to @sschinke @jessesingal
the article is pretty clear that it's a collective effect more than about what individuals (save instructors) do, imo
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Replying to @sschinke
okay. I hope the next time you eat a bagel you think about where it came from, the cultural history, all that
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because it sounds like you've accepted that those personal micro-decisions about what to reflect on or not are a meaningful
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Replying to @jessesingal @sschinke
part of the fight for sociail justice
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Replying to @jessesingal @sschinke
so the contention is that thinking about stuff has no relation to issues of justice?
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