Canada

Was it some kind of secret that the MMA scene is chock full of right-wingers and fascists?

“The white nationalist movement used to be very fragmented and had a lot of infighting,” Balgord said. “The reason that we've been warning about the size and the threat of the white nationalist movement in Canada right now is because they have managed to sort of figure out a unified and coherent strategy. And they are successfully recruiting large numbers of people doing it.”

Not good. Canada needs a broad antifascist movement, including communities and mainstream political parties, to ensure that the Nazis don't get anywhere near as far as they have done in the USA. There's still time, but if we leave the country in the hands of neoliberals while doing nothing to counter fascism or to provide a socialist alternative, we're leaving the door wide open to Nazis. For now though, there's still time to disrupt their funding and their organization. And if the NDP can pick the right leader, someone who is an energetic and unashamed socialist (like Zack Polanski in the UK) it could still provide the electoral alternative people need to steer the country away from the rocks.

If we aren't banning these hateful terrorists organizations and forcing them to scatter like the roaches they are, we are implicitly condoning them and are heading towards crimes against humanity.

Sweden recently also had a problem with fitness bros being Nazis and making gyms recruitment centers.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/hate-crime-trial-in-sweden-shines-light-on-far-right-fitness-clubs

Anywhere there's a "bro" there's an eugenics supporter.

Glad to see CBC following up on and building on the Canadian Anti-Hate Network's reporting. There needs to be mainstream awareness of this. Gyms, community centres and other venues these groups are using to organize and build need to be in high alert.

the event was organized by a group called Exiles of the Golden Age and discussed the formation of "Männerbunds." On the group's social media accounts, they describe these as “disciplined groups of men” who can rebuild our world “amidst the coming wreckage.”

So in other words, a bunch of angry leather incels came together to masturbate in a blockhut.

I too practice martial arts, and thus far haven't had the "joy" of encountering neo nazi types amongst my peers, but then again, I don't practice MMA

Meat heads gonna meat head.

Sorry if this offends anyone but MMA is for meathead morons. I'm talking both fighters AND fans. If You participate in UFC, you're an idiot with a small brain and if you watch UFC, I can only assume you're an idiot, too. It's a sport for people who've had frontal lobotomies.

Oogh man hit man. blood come out and crowd make noise. me like that! more punch. less think. smash face good!!!