Serjeant Grumbles
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the yoga industrial complex. now ive heard everything
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/...remacy/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Eh, it's Breitbart, could just as well source Onion.com.
Surely you're not too drunk to follow the sources provided within the article: http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/yoga/
To the so many white people who practice yoga, please don’t stop
But Onder's right that it still is Breibart, and Breitbart published that article with a very specific purpose in mind: to infuriate its readers that the liberal elite is once again claiming white hegemony and colonialism and trying to outlaw something as innocuous as yoga.
But let's be honest, the vast majority of white Americans who practice yoga probably won't ever hear about this piece; and I kinda doubt that many of Breitbart's readers practice yoga.But that's me being presumptuous.
It's merely asking people to reflect on something they probably don't think about very much.
But let's be honest, the vast majority of white Americans who practice yoga probably won't ever hear about this piece; and I kinda doubt that many of Breitbart's readers practice yoga.But that's me being presumptuous.
Because the Lululemon and smoothie crowd thinks the Swedes invented Yoga? I'm not sure who is "enlightened" by such pieces.
Well, I am for one, but it has nothing to do with who started yoga. I'm also interested in research on the cultural fascination and dissemination of rap music among white middle-class Americans, but that's not because I'm unaware that rap emerged within poor black urban neighborhoods.
Shreena Gandhi's dissertation is actually on the history of yoga's dissemination in America, to whom it was marketed and by whom it was embraced, which goes back to American Transcendentalism in the nineteenth century.I never knew that...
But the sincerest form of flattery is imitation.
I think one of the deep ironies of the whole anti-"cultural appropriation" thing is how anti-universalist it is. They're actually doing the job for the monocultural right-wing types who want to expunge all foreign cultures from the west by forcing whites to only express themselves via the dominant culture of wherever they happen to live.