Active Clubs are a fast growing network of white supremacists that focus on martial arts and fitness as tools for recruiting and building community. They are less an organization, and more a carefully crafted sub culture of young white men who following strict identity guidelines. Their ideology is explicitly nationalist and racist, with documented ties to violent extremist movements.
Martial arts as a tool is critical to the white nationalist movement. It’s also an affront on the values those of us in the martial arts community wish to teach. Values regarding mutual welfare and benefit, building each other up, and protecting those that are weak. When those values are attacked within martial arts it damages the value of our teaching.
| Islamofascist groups use martial arts training in the same way. |
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