Hat tip Francis Marion.
I’m speechless. The stupid, it burns.
This is not an Onion article. Keep that in mind as you read. A free yoga class at the University of Ottawa has been banned by student leaders.
Jennifer Scharf, the yoga teacher, had been offering the class since 2008 reports the Ottawa Sun. She says she was shocked and saddened when she heard the news.
Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities said in an email that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students … there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice… Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced.”
It adds that the cultures that yoga is taken from, “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy … we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”
The Centre, which is operated by the university’s Student Federation had even asked Scharf to teach the class years ago – back when the world wasn’t crazy, we guess.
Despite being a yoga teacher, Scharf made a valid point. “People are just looking for a reason to be offended by anything they can find,” she said.
“There’s a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon. And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things,” she explained.
Student federation president Romeo Ahimakin said the yoga program was not canceled because of a complaint. Rather, the program was suspended while students were consulted “to make it better, more accessible and more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out in yoga-like spaces. … We are trying to have those sessions done in a way in which students are aware of where the spiritual and cultural aspects come from, so that these sessions are done in a respectful manner.”
The day yoga needs a safe space is the day parody meets reality. That day has come.
This is not an article from the Onion?
Are you sure?
Well…it appears we are having a “cultural revolution”
after all. Also, I just heard there are proposals urging
suicide vest control…and suicide bomber safe zones.
More Onion.
Well the fallout from those morons in Missouri folding to the Black Grievance Industry (BGI) is really starting to gain traction now. I saw in the news that UNC and Duke are now trying to make deals to placate them. Probably similar “demands” being made at all major universities. All those poor, poor, special snowflakes must be protected at all costs.
please let’s stop calling agitators special snowflakes,
they are coal grit, and intend to get in your eye.
Keep in mind… at this point these people don’t even believe their own BS. It’s just a beta test to see how bitter of a pill people can be made to swallow.
P.S. there seems to be no limit in sight, if there is a limit at all.
Hey Mr Taliban, Taliban bananas.
Whats so objectionable about yoga? I know that greek yoga is a sort of fad but still… My fav is unblended with fruit on the bottom.
I don’t know what’s behind all this crap, but I’ve lived on this planet long enough to know when TSHTF all that fucking “inclusiveness” will instantly disappear and it will be every “person” for themself.
Inclusiveness and diversity is a government program designed to make folks play nice with gays and lesbians. It is not about race, it is about lifestyles. Those that oppose diversity attack it on the basis of race, which is why they do not get anywhere. Matter of fact, it is preferable that race be attacked since that subject is taboo anyway.
For example:
A. I hate gays
B. OMG, you are against diversity and wish to continue oppressing negros!
C. No, I hate gays.
D. Rayciss!!!
Yes westcoaster, the hipsters are only able to play their little tolerance game so long as mommy continues to pay their iphone bill, they can borrow the odd cigarette and they’re “cool with the bartender” who hooks them up with shit beer. As soon as all that disappears they will be the first to bully and steal their way from any “person of color” to maintain their desired comfort level. Of course, even at that point it will still be “the Republicans fault, maaaaan.”
Nothing surprises me anymore – not even this kind of utter idiocy.
Here in the US, whitey has been acceding to the demands of the black grievance industry for the last 50 years. Not surprisingly, $20 trillion of social programs and 50 years later, most blacks are still poor and live in ghettos.
Here’s a little factoid to drive liberals crazy. Most blacks who went to ‘substandard’ schools in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s can read, write, and do basic arithmetic. Most of today’s young thugs who have spent time in American public schools cannot.
I don’t see any of these anti-white western society types eschewing the creations thereof. They seem happy to use idevices, vaccines, other medicines, plumbing, cars, etc etc.
I kinda flattered. I mean the white male has destroyed the world. We actually have that much power. I am duly impressed with my abilities. I think I will move to Mars and destroy that planet now. The rest of you white destroyers with me on the next target.
Would any honest, sane person actually argue that the perpetrators of this yoga ban should not be killed immediately?
Sometimes you just need to tell a moron that they are morons. This would be one of those times.
I think this is funny as hell.
I also think the reason these shitforbrains keep seeking the next little thing that offends them is their moment is done and over.
People are getting bored. About fucking time.
Clearly these students are suffering from severe oikophobia.