Across the US, the Active Club network uses combat sports to lure boys and young men into white nationalist circles
A neo-Nazi fight club that secretly infiltrated a Tennessee martial arts school where young children train has been banned from the facility, after an inquiry by the Guardian.
Last month, the South Central Tennessee Active Club published video footage on the messaging app Telegram showing its members participating in combat training at Shelbyville BJJ Academy, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school in Shelbyville, Tennessee, that offers classes to students as young as three years old.
The group is part of the wider Active Club network, which consists of dozens of decentralized cells across the US and abroad that use combat sports to lure people into white nationalist and neo-Nazi causes.
This is just dumb. A 3-year old isn’t going to learn anything useful at a BJJ school. I hope that it’s really just daycare and parents aren’t being overcharged thinking their toddlers are learning self-defence.
Sure, it’s “law enforcement” who they’re fooling, because otherwise “law enforcement”, especially “law enforcement” in rural Tennessee would step in to protect the population from the racists. Right?
Also, shouldn’t these racists be focusing on HEMA, not a Brazilian version of a Japanese martial art?
teaching lil guys footwork and tumbling is a great idea, idc what you call it
*edit unless you call it something nazi bc you are a nazi, then i’m against it
A 3 year old just learned how to walk. Tumbling is natural for them, it’s avoiding tumbling that’s the issue.