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 Professor: White people who do yoga guilty of ‘power, privilege, and oppression’
Kyle Perisic - University of Minnesota •January 26, 2018


A professor of religious studies at Michigan State University recently argued that white people who practice yoga are guilty of enjoying a “system of power, privilege, and oppression.”

To truly honor yoga, writes Michigan State University professor Shreena Gandhi, white Americans should understand its history, acknowledge the cultural appropriation they engage in, and possibly reduce the cost of yoga classes for poor people, a group that often includes people of color and “recent immigrants, such as Indian women to whom this practice rightfully belongs.”

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/41333/

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In the absence of any meaningful opposition, collectivist ideology is always taken to its logical extreme, which is a decent into anger, hatred and ultimately, madness. 
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people."    -Calvin Coolidge

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They are also guilty of deluding themselves into thinking yoga is actual exercise instead of a stretching regimen.
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