Remember last fall when the University of Ottawa cancelled a yoga class citing cultural appropriation – meaning white teachers can’t downward dog.
Well now yoga is back, with a new teacher who wonders if she got the job due to her ethnic background.
She said she wonders if she was hired because she’s Indian. Shah says she grew up in Calgary and only visited India once. She was there for five months.
More here, you will want to read it.
I guess I should stop making my Chicken Curry,and get back to Pierogis,Holopchis and Strudel. Thank God my wife can still make a half-batch of Yorkshire Puddin.
The Liberal Left hates assimilation into white cultures. They want their little brown people to stay close but stay simple, serving them gratefully, smiling big with white teeth and nodding all the time.
Ever watch a Liberal perform in an “Ethnic” restaurant, it’s hilarious.
I eet zee hot dog avec fork et knife – S (green shift) Dion
I like pepper on de steak – J Chrétien, post SFU pepper-spray incident
Those Libs a laff
Yes, they’re a laugh a minute and we’ve given them the last laugh, they rule in Canada and are much adored in the province of Ontario where they get rewarded for lies and scandals with majority governments.
The leftists wont be happy until america has been reduced to a miserble 3rd world condition why else is Obama the Fink bringing in more illegal aliens and future demacratic voters from abroad
These people are so pathetic. If I were the original teacher I would sue for wrongful dismissal. I do not think that dismissing someone on the basis of their racial background is legal. Shame on Ottawa U.
It’s the proof, the Socialist creep has come full circle,equality for all but white Anglo Saxons,they are part of the socialist doctrine, some are more equal than others.
Now, if they are going to be consistent, the class attendees must be south Asian, only… otherwise … cultural appropriation…
That is the problem with affirmative action, racial quotas, and the like; everyone questions whether the beneficiary earned their spot just because of their racial/sexual/whatever status and not their qualifications, skills, or abilities.
exactly.
and the ‘cludge’ solution just perpetuates the racism. ALL actions based exclusively on RACE are examples of RACISM. regardless if it a positive or negative outcome for the individual. its STILL racist. if I was black/mixed race/oriental/subcontinent/whatever, I would forever wonder was it my skills and credentials that opened the door or some damnedable quota or p.c. thing. always that doubt. as in this case.
robbed of the satisfaction that you ‘made it’ thru work ethic and applying oneself. robbed by the leftists and their ghastly limited view and perspective.
sometimes it even *severely* backfires. google the bussing situation years ago in the states. those poor kids getting up at 4 oclock in the morning so they could catch the ‘politically correct’ bus to the ‘privileged predominately white’ school 100 friggin miles away, sleep deprived because of it. but the socialist dont followup their bizarreness, only that THEY get to call the shots regardless who suffers.
Hopefully she stayed at a Holiday In Express while in India.
I stopped eating Sushi, out of my own feelings of white guilt (and privilege) for appropriating another cultures food. Next … no more Mexican, Chinese, Italian, French, Thai, Cajun, Mongolian … etc. I will be limited to “my peoples” food … Swedish, German, English … uggh.
So she was hired solely because of the colour of her skin.
What’s wrong with that?
Oh. That’s the explicit definition of racism?
Well, it’s different when they do it.
LindaL >
Sue for wrongfully dismissal?
99% chance the white yoga teacher is a Jack Laydon worshipper – you reap what you sow.
I have no empathy for the Urban Liberal that losses their job, or befalls a nasty crime of their own creation. They can OWN IT.
Can you remind me again: why is Trump leading in the US?
They have small minds… appearances and symbolism is everything. This is especially true on a campus, and especially true in Ottawa.
The answer to that is easy … Trump is the antidote to a feckless, weak, and ineffectual Republican Establishment. The REAL question is to ask WHY an avowed Communist is leading the Democrat race ? Not your mother’s Democrat party anymore, eh ?
From this point forward in Canada, (since Canadians invent almost nothing), only White Americans will be allowed to use computers, the internet, blog, be on television, star in movies, be vaccinated, dress in the latest fashions. Furthermore Canadians will no longer drive automobiles, fly in airplanes, use a telephone, get a CATscan or MRI, use Skype, watch Cable tv etc etc since modern iterations of these items are American and specifically White American.
You have been forewarned that these cultural appropriations will not be tolerated. These new culturally appropriate edicts will be severely enforced by nanny-state groupthink liberal morons from the University of Ottawa.
Carry on and be Politically Correct.
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“MikeM says… That is the problem with affirmative action”
you mean like when toronto goes out of its way to elevate a man born in england to jamaican parents to the office of chief of police? coincidentally, (cough, cough) one of the three deputy chiefs is also a jamaican born immigrant. out of all the 5000 cops in toronto, these guys are unquestionably the most qualified… right? and hells bells, maybe they can rap and crump with all those firearms-happy fellow islanders up at jane & finch.
apparently, the thinking is… if we put black guys in charge of all those racist white cops… everybody lives happily ever after. it’s magic.
ps… deputy chief peter sloly actually seems to be eminently qualified and educated to run the whole shebang… but by making a conscious effort to fill the command echelon with a statistically dispropotionate number of black men, his stature within the police service is unavoidably diminished. using a quota system to hire the people in charge is a condescending and short-sighted way to run any sort of enterprise.
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Geez,I hope the Left will make an exception for America’s First Black President, who appropriates Scottish culture on a regular basis.
Surely,they wouldn’t criticize the Prez,would they!!!!?
My most recent ancestry is Scottish and Welsh,so all I can safely eat is haggis and leeks. F***.
Well, at least we’ll still have zippers on our clothes and be able to wash them in automatic washing machines.
MikeM >
Exactly, the Liberal Left has trained our entire society to at first assume that any non white person is useless at their job due too affirmative action.
How many Canadians including many dark skinned Canadians would rather seek white skinned professional services if given a choice?
Stand aside, o ye of lesser conservative ability! I will handle this!
First I’ll need some yoga pants (three sizes too small), a shoe horn and a toilet plunger. Once I’ve stuffed myself into the yoga pants I will walk into that studio filled with clucky coffee shop girls, homosexuals and the liberal elite – and strike a few poses.
When I have the inevitable explosive blow out and loss of containment – I’ll send those cultural brown nosers running and gobbling in fright! HAR HAR HAR! Cultural sensitivity my rosey red hairy ass!!! HAR HAR HAR!
The patriots are thanked for their moral support and it’s muchly appreciated – but this is a suicide mission and no volunteers will be taken.
Wish me luck!
Good to know how these questions are solved.
In the case of teaching archery, I would of course search for an Aboriginal.
Or ancestors from Anglo-Saxon heritage?
Maybe a Chinese/Oriental would have a stronger claim?
I’m so confused.
I could Google for an answer, but I read a warning:
Not everything you find on the Internet is true – Abraham Lincoln
You left out listening to Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Hip-Hop, Roy Rogers, etc.
I don’t get it. She teaches the class for the university,… for free? If she’s that good, why would it matter? She could just start up her own yoga school out of her garage, and take her clientelle with her, no? And if she doesn’t feel like dealing with accounts, she could continue doi g it for free?
I remember the day I ditched my varsity tutoring gig and started freelancing. Took away most of their clients, and quintupled my salary…
And go on whisky trail tours in Scotland. Or in the nearest liquor outlet ;-0
I think the great bowman of crècy and agincourt were welsh
Blacks playing basketball is a prime example of cultural appropriation. Wonder how they would react if told to stop playing?
@Knight999: Wrong, she is no Jack Layton worshipper. The article said:
“The former/ousted Yoga teacher, Jennifer Scharf heard the news that class was brought on. She suggested that the left-wing students are to blame for her not being rehired because she called them social justice warriors.”
Now does that sound like some sort of left wing nutjob?
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