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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, at this point the racist PP (yes PP, I can call you racist if you insist on calling people like us "Hindutva", especially if you're arguing the validity of race-based theory while trying to couch it in linguistic terms and then backtracking, especially if you are doing so in a thread about the cultural appropriation of the religious practice of yoga) clearly did not read the academic articles I linked 4 pages back.

I was going to write a long response. I shortened it because I frankly don't have enough whisky on hand to deal with people like you.

The Aryan theory is almost NEVER argued in exclusively linguistic terms. [b]N.E.V.E.R.[/b]

I don't care if you think you're exclusively arguing about whether or not Sanskrit is an Indo-European or Syrian language. If you read my posts, I actually mentioned that the Vedic pantheon (which is what your precious articles are referring to you, but oh look at that, you don't know enough about Hinduism to realize what I was saying) was supplanted by the largely Puranic pantheon, and the Yoga Sutras were written after the Puranic pantheon took center stage in Hinduism.

In other words, yoga took center stage with the advent of Krishna and Shiva. Puranic Gods. The key texts that teach yoga, that [i]every modern practitioner of yoga derives their practice from[/i], are texts written in worship of Krishna and/or Shiva.

So what the fuck is your point, exactly? You think only "Hindutva" people have refuted the Aryan migration theory and the refutation of said theory is based only on ideology? I quoted a list of scholarly articles - not a saffron turban to be found amongst them - refuting it.

You think migrational patterns of the ancient world have any bearing on cultural appropriation today, or dissolve the very existence of the concept of cultural appropriation? So if we all came out of Africa in the first place, are you going to use that historical migration as an argument that black people don't have cultures, civilizations, ethno-religious identites (hello Yoruba) and experience systematic prejudice or have those religious traditions warped and appropriated into something else entirely? (hello vodou)

Let's be perfectly honest: You're just pissed that we called you out on cultural appropriation because having your white privilege pointed out pushes your buttons.

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