Minneapolis yoga studio anti-ICE confrontation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

I saw the video. The woman filming it was a complete and utter horse's ass. She wouldn't even shut up long enough to let the two women respond. As usual, she was a complete bully and I'm glad she and the other snapping idiots were banned from this location. Corporations - in addition to regular people - do NOT have to do the bidding of the unhinged protesters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

What is the issue? If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem? The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts.

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.

I read her article about it in the Free Press too.

Typical nasty white liberal behavior

So true.

This also reminded me of a post from a couple days ago - https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1313202.page

This is why people don't discuss politics among friends anymore. Because we all have friends/acquaintances who are are just like those Yoga protestors and how can you have a conversation with them?

+1000
Imagine trying to have a rational discussion with the ahole who was yelling at them and not allowing them to even respond. Nope. I wish the two employees hadn't tried so hard to be polite and had just made them all leave. It's a private company, not a public space and they are not there to do the bidding of these snapping morons.

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So wrong to take you anger out on the front desk workers making peanuts. Yelling at them, snapping their fingers, circling them in a hostile manner.

As if the lowly workers had the power to decide anything with a chain of over 200 yoga studios.

Maybe some people just want to go there...to take a yoga class and relax.

If they want to do something, how about the instigator donates money so that migrants who are super stressed about being deported can take free yoga classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

What is the issue? If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem? The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts.

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.

And not even ganging up on the company, they were ganging up on a couple of front desk employees who probably make minimum wage. Absolutely ridiculous. And the snapping! It’s like an SNL skit.

Apparently one of the women bragged online about leaving all the weights on the floor instead of re-racking them, as some form of protest. The whole thing was absurd.

This.

Go after the company. Don’t abuse front desk employees.

And how are they to do that?
The Minnesota people have developed a wide range of strategies--it's truly amazing. There is also a huge amount of work being done to help people with basic needs, helping fund lawyers, and holding protest events (several involving hundreds of people forming messages on frozen lakes, sometimes with luminaria at night) as fundraisers as well as simply protests. And yes, they are pressuring companies and businesses as much as they can. Remember Americans and "freedom fries" around the time of the Iraq invasion?
I know people who, just in recent weeks, have experienced minor vandalism from people who didn't like their upside down american flag on their car (yanked it down, broke the pole, wrecked the holder) or sign on their apartment door (broke it into splinters). I have a friend who got punched in the face while marching for Gaza some months back--guy came out of a Pizza Hut where he worked and just punched her (he did get fired).

That kind of thing is not my style, and at Indivisible meetings I have argued against things like the f word (which in my view, if there were ICE agents around--which I have yet to personally experience--could result in them taking it out on their captives) while others say But free speech!. (My style is to follow and tell people about legal proceedings and wonky stuff, and at events I am on the safety team because I don't feel comfortable chanting).

This is such a minor event in everything that's going on, so screw the pearl clutching.

[Anonymous]

These types of things are happening on both sides all over America. People are fired or banned from establishments all the time for bad behavior. This isn't news. They aren't elected officials.

[Anonymous]

The yoga studio acted appropriately. Any member who abuses staff should have their membership revoked. You have a right to your opinion, but you don’t have free speech rights inside a private business.

Also, I assume that this group of a-holes violated the privacy rights of the employees and other members.

[Anonymous]

These are the types of off putting behaviors that fuel the other side. Opportunistic dingbats.

[Anonymous]

I go to yoga for relaxation and stress management, not to be confronted by political signs! The yoga studio made the right call.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA are such betas. God, they are the world’s biggest victims.

This from the people that gave us the trigger alert and the micro aggression?

MAGA (which I despise) simply adopted and co-opted the grievance language of the progressives.

Peas in a pod.

I recall Pat Robertson affiliated conservative Christians doing shit like that way back in the early 1980s, let's not pretend conservatives were all wonderful people who only just recently "adopted grievance language and tactics of progressives."

[Anonymous]

Is the yoga studio actually pro-ICE or did they just not want unauthorized political posters in their studio?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the yoga studio actually pro-ICE or did they just not want unauthorized political posters in their studio?

The email they sent out after the fact said that they are anti-ICE, but the customers acted inappropriately and so they are now banned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this news?

The video of the insufferables went viral.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

What is the issue? If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem? The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts.

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.

And not even ganging up on the company, they were ganging up on a couple of front desk employees who probably make minimum wage. Absolutely ridiculous. And the snapping! It’s like an SNL skit.

Apparently one of the women bragged online about leaving all the weights on the floor instead of re-racking them, as some form of protest. The whole thing was absurd.

This.

Go after the company. Don’t abuse front desk employees.

And how are they to do that?
The Minnesota people have developed a wide range of strategies--it's truly amazing. There is also a huge amount of work being done to help people with basic needs, helping fund lawyers, and holding protest events (several involving hundreds of people forming messages on frozen lakes, sometimes with luminaria at night) as fundraisers as well as simply protests. And yes, they are pressuring companies and businesses as much as they can. Remember Americans and "freedom fries" around the time of the Iraq invasion?
I know people who, just in recent weeks, have experienced minor vandalism from people who didn't like their upside down american flag on their car (yanked it down, broke the pole, wrecked the holder) or sign on their apartment door (broke it into splinters). I have a friend who got punched in the face while marching for Gaza some months back--guy came out of a Pizza Hut where he worked and just punched her (he did get fired).

That kind of thing is not my style, and at Indivisible meetings I have argued against things like the f word (which in my view, if there were ICE agents around--which I have yet to personally experience--could result in them taking it out on their captives) while others say But free speech!. (My style is to follow and tell people about legal proceedings and wonky stuff, and at events I am on the safety team because I don't feel comfortable chanting).

This is such a minor event in everything that's going on, so screw the pearl clutching.

1. Very easy to target the parent corporation via SM or by direct contact or by protesting outside the establishment.

2. Disagree that this is a minor event. This is exactly the kind of thing that negatively impacts people’s view of the protesters. It’s significant in the PR battle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

What is the issue? If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem? The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts.

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.

Ugh. This is what I am afraid of happening - a return to the excesses of 2021. In fact part of me thinks that Steven Miller actually planned to have ICE be aggressive in order to trigger a left over-reaction. (A common authoritarian tactic.) I had hoped that we all learned our lessons about aggressive cancel culture but I am afraid not.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.

What is the issue? If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem? The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts.

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.

Ugh. This is what I am afraid of happening - a return to the excesses of 2021. In fact part of me thinks that Steven Miller actually planned to have ICE be aggressive in order to trigger a left over-reaction. (A common authoritarian tactic.) I had hoped that we all learned our lessons about aggressive cancel culture but I am afraid not.

The lieutenant governor of Minnesota went on socal media telling people to “put their bodies on the line” against ICE. It’s hard to see how this is Stephan Miller’s fault, distasteful as he is. This isn’t happening in the rest of the country.