Jonathan Last

You know who’s really racist? People who do yoga.
July 8th, 2014

I’m pretty sure (?) this isn’t a joke. But you never know:

“Racism is so implicit that you never even notice that it’s a white girl on the cover every single time,” added Amy Champ, a PhD from the University of California, Davis, who wrote her dissertation on American yoga. “But when you begin to ask yourself, ‘What does yoga have to do with my community?’, then you begin to question all these inequities.”

I’m really looking forward to society doing some deep searching over how “racist” Uber and Bike Share and all the other darlings of urban hipster consumerism tend to be. But I suspect that somehow those folks will find a way to make peace with it.

Galley Wife July 8, 2014 at 6:14 pm

I’m asking myself right now: What does yoga have to do with my community?

SkinsFanPG July 9, 2014 at 8:32 am

“…added Amy Champ, a PhD from the University of California, David, who wrote her dissertation on AMERICAN YOGA(emphasis mine)”

All you need to know about academia is that someone can get a PhD by writing (and defending) a dissertation on AMERICAN FUCKING YOGA! AMERICAN YOGA!!!!
And PhDs wonder why nobody considers them REAL doctors.

the socialist mop July 11, 2014 at 4:08 pm

Stuff Racist People Like

Shanna Small July 29, 2014 at 8:38 am

I hate when people take the word yoga and just wrap it up in some mess. This is not a yoga issue. This is a human issue. Most of the media is white. Period.

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