Propaganda? Inappropriate martial arts.

**huge** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 3:57pm

Originally Posted by Resonance10

Blech, I hate watching people's arms get broken. This is effective propaganda though, I started to question my involvement in MA's. If there was less arm breaking, it wouldn't be nearly as effective.

EDIT: That being said, I'll probably try to watch more of the videos. It's interesting to see the spin.

**Bneterasedmynam** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 4:06pm

Well **** someone could get hurt doing this martial arts crap. Maybe we should all take up basket weaving. Or LARPing....oh wait.

**Resonance10** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 4:51pm

Originally Posted by ermghoti

Nope.

Indeed it is that bad, I have just watched the Kung Fu Cult video. It could be a troll job but a troll would want the comments.

**Resonance10** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 4:52pm

Whoops

**cualltaigh** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 5:21pm

I think there is more behind this than trolling or propoganda. There is a serious level of resentment/anger underlying these videos. Also, the need for anonymity, the constant theme of abuse and, most tellingly:

**huge** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 5:53pm

Originally Posted by cualltaigh

I think there is more behind this than trolling or propoganda. There is a serious level of resentment/anger underlying these videos.

I sensed the same thing, but I only watched one video. I suspect that something reprehensible happened to the author at the hands of an instructor.

**Soldiermedic** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 6:08pm

Originally Posted by cualltaigh

I think there is more behind this than trolling or propoganda. There is a serious level of resentment/anger underlying these videos. Also, the need for anonymity, the constant theme of abuse and, most tellingly:

In the past 2 months or so, a number of plain posters, printed out on standard computer paper, have been taped up in in my city with messages such as: "Google Martial Arts Sex Scandal", "Google Martial Arts Pedophilia", "Google Martial Arts Brain Injury", and so on. I wonder if this is part of the same movement?

**cualltaigh** · Posted On: 1/23/2013 6:20pm

Originally Posted by Soldiermedic

In the past 2 months or so, a number of plain posters, printed out on standard computer paper, have been taped up in in my city with messages such as: "Google Martial Arts Sex Scandal", "Google Martial Arts Pedophilia", "Google Martial Arts Brain Injury", and so on. I wonder if this is part of the same movement?

Could very well be. I wonder who the Massachusetts instructor who testified in this one was?
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=171715

or perhaps:
http://shrewsbury.dailyvoice.com/new...cused-sexually

Either way, the use of generic computer media to aid anonymity seems to fit.

**Nickosaurus** · Posted On: 1/24/2013 8:42am

The one about people breaking bricks with the heads has a point

**Magpie McGee** · Posted On: 1/24/2013 3:31pm

"The brain is very similar to Jell-o. It is very gelatinous."

****. With arguments like that, people will be surely leaving martial arts schools in droves. Instructors, sell your gyms and put a resume on Monster. The end is nigh.