TIME says exercise is racist: perhaps hoping people of color will die from lack of it

I first saw this article about TIME and exercise while working out at my local gym. I [who is white] was running on the treadmill and looked around. It was me and two other white guys working out, then there was my wife, who is from India and is brown, three black men, two Chinese men, a Chinese woman, four black women, and a man who looked to be Middle Eastern. So I wondered if all these people of non-white lineage were exercising to try emulating whiteness [whatever the hell that means] or because the theory in TIME is as racist a f***. 

The idea that someone can attribute an activity to racism clearly shows they are so focused on race that they have to be racist to be so focused. After all, a person with serious anxiety sees the world as a dangerous place; a person with depression sees the world as a sad place. It stands to reason that someone who sees racism in even the most mundane things is a closet racist him- or herself.

So fitness influencers along with Twitter twits blasted the TIME interview for claiming that exercise is an activity with roots in White supremacy. [Yeah, maybe in prison it does to a degree, but that's about it.]

"How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons?" the TIME article, titled "The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts about the History of U.S. Physical Fitness" asked.

The article was heavily mocked by normal Twitter users, with critics saying it was destroying the media's credibility.

White supremacist doing a white supremacist pushup

Ed Latimore, a former heavyweight boxer, tweeted, "First math was a tool of white supremacy. Now it's exercise. Pretty soon, food is gonna be a tool to continue systemic racism oppression."

Latimore is correct, but it has gotten to the point where not allowing for the aborting of black babies is considered racist. 

"Honestly, I want them to keep pumping articles like this out to eviscerate every remaining shred of their credibility and perceived legitimacy," British rapper Zuby tweeted. "It doesn't anger me at all. It's so goofy I consider it satire."

Dr. Gad Saad, marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, also jumped onto the fun bandwagon and said, "Precisely. The only way to fight against the white supremacy roots of exercise is by leading a sedentary life. Say no to exercise as a means of being an ally to people of color."

And of course, people of color should not exercise because it only feeds into the white supremacists' plan to get fit, while minorities become fat and sedentary or aborted.

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