{"id":17405,"date":"2015-11-30T01:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17405"},"modified":"2015-11-30T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:30:41","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-30112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/squatchs-open-thread-30112015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 30\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am taking time to work on the monthly reports for October and November for Politics Plus.  I have never done them before so this should be interesting.  Fortunately, TC is around to answer questions.  As a result, I have this modified Open Thread today.  Depending on the news and my time, this might be the case for much of this week.  It is definitely a busy week ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Puzzle — <\/strong>Today’s took me 2:35 (average 4:26). To do it, <\/span>click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. How did you do?<\/span> <\/p>\n

From the 'Give Your Head A Shake' File<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Daily Beast<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has an article "Should We Ban Yoga?" that clearly, in my mind at least, pushes the envelope of incredulity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One would think such a class—a free <\/i>class, administered to students with special needs—doesn’t deserve the ire of an activist movement. And yet a student—a lone “social justice warrior” with “fainting heart ideologies,” according to Scharf<\/a>—complained that the class was a slight against yoga’s ancient Indian inventors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If this is to be believed, then where are the complaints against Roman\/Greco wrestling often seen at varsity sporting events?  Or those against judo or other martial arts which were not developed here but are routinely taught.  How about lacrosse which is a sport of First Nations people and is also Canada's national sport.  Or a favourite, meditation.  And then there are Tai Chi and Qi Gong (I practice Qi Gong).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The cultures from which yoga originate “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.”<\/p>\n

That statement, translated into English, reads thus: Doing yoga is racist because, uh, colonialism.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In my examples, substitute Roman\/Greco wrestling, or martial arts, or lacrosse, or meditation, or Tai Chi and Qi Gong for yoga, and what do you have?  Well according to the complaint, a whole lot of cultural appropriation.  But isn't that flattery to a society when some of its ways are imitated with all respect?<\/span><\/p>\n

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In their zeal to prohibit all potential offense, yoga’s campus naysayers are aligning themselves with totalitarians who imposed cultural isolation on their people in order to keep them enslaved. If they want to encourage respect for other cultures, fine—but imitation, as they say, is the sincerest form of flattery<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Besides, yoga has many physical and mental health benefits for all ages.  What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n

My Universe <\/strong>— <\/span><\/p>\n

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