"In an email exchange between Scharf and a representative of the university’s Student Federation -- which was viewed by the newspaper -- a student wrote 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," the email continues, and which cultures those practices "are being taken from."

The Student Federation, which operates the center, went on to say that many of those cultures “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 practicing yoga.""

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/23/...tcmp=hpbt2

I guess we can start banning tacos, curry, chinese food, and greek gyros

Weird to see this in Canada. They aren't very PC.

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E'ffin lunacy........... And our society just keeps on coddling the idiots. It seem that almost daily is a new story of the lunatics being allowed to run the asylum. SMH!!!

More cry baby losers at a university.

Then no non-whites can play soccer, or any other game invented by Europeans? That's cultural appropriation.

I have no basis for understanding this. If another culture adopts one of your practices, they are essentially acknowledging that it is better or at least on par with whatever your culture's alternative is. I've worked and been friends with numerous Indians throughout the years and I have not met one who wasn't more than eager to share cuisine and yoga tips with others.

(11-23-2015 06:49 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Weird to see this in Canada. They aren't very PC.

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Canada actually has laws prohibiting hate speech. Laws! I'd say that qualifies as pretty PC.

(11-23-2015 10:32 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Then no non-whites can play soccer, or any other game invented by Europeans? That's cultural appropriation.

What about Lacrosse? That's probably the worst of all.... a game invented by Native Americans / Canadians that is primarily played by upper-middle to upper class white kids. Oh, the HORROR!!!

This is beyond stupid, but not surprising.

(11-23-2015 10:32 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Then no non-whites can play soccer, or any other game invented by Europeans? That's cultural appropriation.

I give you Dr. James Naismith, Canadian, and inventor of basketball.

(11-23-2015 10:32 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Then no non-whites can play soccer, or any other game invented by Europeans? That's cultural appropriation.

Let's not limit it to games. Let's expand it to inventions of all types. No non-Europeans can use anything originally developed by any of the European peoples.

So, no one in North America can ever eat a french fry again. BRILLIANT!












































(potatoes are from Peru)

(11-23-2015 06:48 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  "In an email exchange between Scharf and a representative of the university’s Student Federation -- which was viewed by the newspaper -- a student wrote 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," the email continues, and which cultures those practices "are being taken from."

The Student Federation, which operates the center, went on to say that many of those cultures “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 practicing yoga.""

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/23/...tcmp=hpbt2

I guess we can start banning tacos, curry, chinese food, and greek gyros

Tacos and gyros? That would be grounds for starting a war!!!!

(11-24-2015 09:52 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(11-23-2015 10:32 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Then no non-whites can play soccer, or any other game invented by Europeans? That's cultural appropriation.

Let's not limit it to games. Let's expand it to inventions of all types. No non-Europeans can use anything originally developed by any of the European peoples.

No more lacrosse.