THIS IS
ONE OF THE MOST CRAZY
STORIES THAT HAS COME ACROSS AT LEAST MY DESK IN A WHILE.
>>ALT-RIGHT FIGHT CLUBS, ALT-RIGHT CLUBS, ALT-FIGHT
CLUBS?
THERE ARE REAL FIGHT CLUBS THAT ARE PROBABLY RIGHT
SUPREMACIST FIGHT CLUBS, THEY HAVE THESE AMAZING LITTLE PROMO
REELS.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ONE.
>>DO WE HAVE TO?
>>[LAUGHTER]
>>IT'S SO HARD, BRO.
>>WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS WITHOUT HASSAN.
>>HE'S NOT HERE.
>>GET HASSAN.
>>HE'S DEFINITELY DOING THAT.
>>THE INCLINE PUSH-UPS, THE HIGH-FIVING --
>>THE MUSIC WAS SO CATCHY.
WHAT WAS THAT SONG?
>>IT WAS A LITTLE EMO REGATONE.
>>IT WAS A REGATONE BEAT.
>>SO MANY IRONIES TO LOOK AT THERE.
>>I WANT TO SEE THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF THAT SHOOT.
JASON, NO,
A LITTLE FURTHER TO THE LEFT, YOU CAN SEE YOUR TAT RIGHT
THERE.
>>DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT GROUP IS CALLED?
>>WE DO, I DON'T WANT TO SAY THEIR NAME.
>>I DON'T BLAME YOU.
>>THE ACRONYM IS R.A.M., THE R.A.M.
GROUP.
AND THIS IS ONE OF
MANY.
UNFORTUNATELY THEY DON'T JUST BEAT UP EACH OTHER --
>>RIGHT HERE.
>>AT LEAST THEY'RE CALLING IN A GANG, AT LEAST THE COURTS
RECOGNIZE IT AS A GANG.
KEEP GOING, WHAT WERE YOU SAYING?
>>A LOT OF THEM SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE -- OH YES, SO
THIS IS A POST ON A FORUM FOR ALT-RIGHT GROUPS THAT SAID --
>>WOW.
AMAZING, DOMESTIC TERRORISM, LAST I CHECKED NO ONE
FROM BLM SHOT AND KILLED NINE CHURCHGOERS IN A BLACK CHURCH IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
OR SOUTH CAROLINA.
>>HERE'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT A MIXED MARTIAL ARTS GROUP BEING A
WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP IS THAT MOST OF THE MARTIAL ARTS ARE
ASIAN.
WE ARE THE BEST!
WHITE PEOPLE ROCK, WE ARE THE BEST
PEOPLE, LET'S BEAT PEOPLE UP USING TAE KWON DO.
KARATE.
>>AND LET'S PLAY EMO REGATONE WHILE WE DO IT.
>>NO REGATONE, NO MARTIAL ARTS BORROWED BY ANYWHERE FROM
HUNTINGTON BEACH.
>>EVEN KRAV MAGA IS ISRAELI.
THE MAGA DOESN'T STAND FOR MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
>>IN THEIR WEIRD RACIST PECKING ORDER, ASIANS ARE OKAY BECAUSE
THEY ARE MORE ADVANCED -- FIRST OF ALL, IN THIS FIGHT, I'M GLAD
THEY ARE BEATING EACH OTHER UP INSTEAD OF PROTESTERS OR PEOPLE
OF COLOR OR LATINOS, CLEARLY THEY HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING
THAT, BUT I THINK THIS FIGHT CLUB MEME IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE
TAKEN LIGHTLY.
AND THEY GOT IT WRONG, FIGHT CLUB WAS NEVER
ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY.
BUT THEY LOVE FIGHT CLUB, THE MOVIE, THEY
FETISHIZE IT, BUT FIGHT CLUB WAS BASICALLY LIKE AN AFFRONT ON
CAPITALISM.
THIS
HYPER CAPITALIST WORLD IN WHICH WE ARE
ALL SUPPOSED TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY -- AHEM, DUDES WHO ALWAYS
WEAR KHAKIS AND WHITE SHIRTS -- AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A
CERTAIN WAY, BUY, BUY, BUY, WHEN WE WORK IT'S ALL WRONG, AND I
THINK THAT'S SOMETHING I HEARD BERNIE SANDERS SAY A LITTLE
SOMETHING ABOUT.
AND PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SOCIALISM ARE SUPER DOWN
WITH THAT.
SO THE FACT THAT YOU COULD CO-OPT FIGHT CLUB INTO
BEING SOME SORT OF WHITE SUPREMACIST, FASCIST NARRATIVE
IS A TOTAL DISSERVICE TO BRAD PITT.
>>THAT'S WHAT THEY LOVE DOING, CO-OPTING THINGS THAT AREN'T
THEIRS.
LIKE DEPECHE MODE, THEY TRIED TO MAKE THEM THE BAND OF
THE ALT-RIGHT.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS?
>>I DIDN'T, THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MAD LIB.
>>THAT'S HOW LIFE IS THESE DAYS, IT ALL SOUNDS LIKE A MAD
LIB.
BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS THIS IS SCARY IF THEY AREN'T JUST
FINDING OURSELVES LIKE YOU SAID AND THEY ARE GOING OUT AND
ATTACKING PEOPLE.
I COVERED THIS STORY IN ORANGE COUNTY ABOUT A
COLLEGE STUDENT WHO WAS HOME ON BREAK AND HE WAS BRUTALLY
MURDERED BY A FORMER CLASSMATE OF HIS NAME TO SAMUEL WOODWARD,
AND WHEN I SAW HIS MUG SHOT -- I HATE TO ALMOST PROFILE -- BUT I
SAW HIS HAIR CUT AND IT LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THOSE MODERN,
FASCIST, NEO-NAZI HAIRCUTS, AND I THOUGHT I HOPE MY SUSPICIONS
AREN'T RIGHT, BUT IT TURNS OUT HE WAS PART OF THIS NAZI
TRAINING CAMP, WHICH IS THIS CAMP, THESE CAMPS WHICH SEEM
SIMILAR TO THIS THING WE JUST WATCHED, WHERE THEY ARE TRAINING
AND THEY ARE BREEDING MURDERERS.
YOU TALK ABOUT RADICALIZATION AND TERRORISM, IT'S
HAPPENING RIGHT HERE ON OUR SOIL.
>>AND THIS IS AN OBSCURE STORY OF A FIGHT CLUB WHEN WE HAVE
SEEN UNDER OBAMA, BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, THE
RISE OF WHITE NATIONALIST GROUPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE
WHO AREN'T JUST FIGHTING EACH OTHER BUT TRAINING WITH WEAPONS,
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL PUSH BACK ON THE IDEA OF
FALSE EQUIVALENCIES.
THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER, A MOVEMENT STARTED
IN RESPONSE TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND UNARMED LIKE PEOPLE BEING
SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE, IS NOT THE SAME AS A WHITE
NATIONALIST ORGANIZATION, AND IS NOT THE SAME AS PEOPLE KILLING
BLACK CHURCHGOERS.
IT IS NOT THE SAME AS THE AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE
WE'VE SEEN, DOMESTIC TERRORISM, FROM SPECIFICALLY WHITE
NATIONALISTS IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND AGAIN I THINK WE KNOW THAT,
I THINK THE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS KNOW THAT, BUT FOX NEWS AND SEAN
HANNITY AND ALL THESE GOONS, THESE SOULLESS GOONS, THEY ARE
PUSHING THAT NARRATIVE AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT,
ESPECIALLY AS YOUNG PEOPLE START TO GET POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS,
THAT WE PUSH BACK ON THAT FALSE EQUIVALENCY AND WE SEE THAT
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, NOT THE SAME AS ARMED ORGANIZATIONS WHO WANT
TO FIGHT SHARIA.
>>I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO DRIVE HOME THAT VIOLENCE
SHOULD NEVER BE PART OF ANY SOCIAL MOVEMENT.
>>AND ISN'T ACTUALLY PART OF THE MOVEMENTS THEY CLAIM TO BE
FIGHTING.
>>I WOULD SAY FOR THE MOST PART.
I THINK THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE
WHO UNFORTUNATELY GIVE SOME GROUPS A BAD
REPRESENTATION, BUT ABSOLUTELY I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU FOR
THE MOST PART WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT ON THAT SIDE.
>>I WANT TO ASK BRETT.
>>GOOD.
>>YOU ARE A WHITE GUY.
>>I'M A COLORLESS PERSON.
>>YOU ARE A COLORLESS, PIGMENTLESS --
>>JEWY.
A LITTLE JEWY.
>>YOU KNOW WE ARE ON YOUTUBE RIGHT NOW.
>>ASHKANAZ, WHICH IS LIKE EURO-JEW.
>>DO YOU SEE THE APPEAL OF THIS?
WHY DO YOU THINK SOME
YOUNG KID WOULD GET INVOLVED IN EMO REGATONE?
>>THERE HAVE BEEN STUDIES ON IT, IT STEMS FROM TEENAGERS NOT
HAVING A GROUP TO JOIN, AND WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE THAT YOU FIND
PEOPLE THAT GIVE YOU A PLACE.
AND IF THINGS AREN'T GOING WELL
IN ONE ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE, IT FEELS LIKE THINGS AREN'T GOING
RIGHT IN ANY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE.
AND IF SOMEONE SAYS WE
WILL GET YOU INTO THE GYM -- AND SOMETIMES THAT'S GOOD, ONE OF MY
FAVORITE SHOWS IS THE WIRE AND A GUY OPENED THE GYM TO COMBAT
GANG VIOLENCE.
AND THAT CAN BE GOOD.
BUT WHEN IT BECOMES THE
MANTRA OF LET'S GET TOGETHER TO DO A FIGHT CLUB, THAT'S ALREADY
WEIRD BECAUSE THAT FILM DOESN'T HOLD UP, IT GETS EVEN WEIRDER
WHEN THEY SAY WE ARE TEACHING YOU THE SKILLS SO WE CAN GO
FIGHT PEOPLE.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS STRANGE OVERLAP WITH THE
ACTUAL MMA COMMUNITY, LIKE THROUGHOUT EUROPE, THIS MOTHER
JONES ARTICLE I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD READ TRACKS THESE CRAZY
GROUPS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY FEEDERS IN SOME WAYS TO THE MMA,
ANASTASIA YANKOVA WAS CALLED THE NEXT PHASE OF FEMALE MMA, AND ON
THE BOTTOM LEFT YOU CAN SEE SHE'S SHOWING OFF THE NAME OF
THIS LABEL -- SHE FIGHTS FOR BELATOR NOW, SHE WAS IN A NIKE
COMMERCIAL, THEY HAD TO GET RID OF HER ACCORDING TO NIKE WHEN
THEY FOUND OUT SHE WAS PART OF THIS -- THIS IS THE LOGO FOR THE
COMPANY WHITE REX, 14.08.08 IS A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING, THE
BLACK SUN WHICH IS A WEIRD THING THAT SOME NAZI GUY PUT IN HIS
CASTLE, PEOPLE PROBABLY DEMONSTRATE THIS BUT IT ALSO
MAKES ITS WAY INTO WHAT HAS BECOME LIKE A $4 BILLION
INDUSTRY, MMA, AND IT'S THE SAME ASPIRATIONAL THING, I JUST WISH
YOU COULD GO BE AN ATHLETE TO GET OUT OF CRAP, BUT DON'T
GRAVITATE TOWARD A GROUP THAT IS ESPOUSING WHITE SUPREMACY,
THAT IS WILDLY UNHEALTHY.
>>I'M SO GLAD I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ANY OF THOSE SYMBOLS ARE BUT I
GUESS I SHOULD PROBABLY GET UP ON MY --
>>DON'T GET UP ON THAT.
>>JUST SO I KNOW HOW TO SPOT IT.
>>WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FRISBEE GOLF FOR WHITE GUYS?
WHY CAN'T
WE GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS?
YOU HAVE EVERYTHING AVAILABLE TO
YOU, YOU DON'T NEED THIS.
AND ALSO, WHAT ABOUT THE NFL?
WHY NOT SOMEONE WHITE RUNNING BACKS?
>>CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY.
>>THEN THERE WILL BE NO ONE ELSE TO TAKE ANY.
I GUESS YOU AREN'T
GOOD ENOUGH, YOU HAVE TO JUST FIGHT ONE ANOTHER, AND FIGHT
LIKE THIS.
THIS IS THE WAY WHITE SUPREMACISTS ONLINE FIGHT.
>>THAT IS WHAT TWITTER IS.
>>IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHITE FIGHTING --
>>REALLY QUICKLY, THERE IS HOPE OUT THERE THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS
LIKE LIFE AFTER HATE, IT WAS STARTED BY A GROUP OF FORMER
WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND FORMER NEO-NAZIS, AND THROUGH
COMPASSION, SOMETHING A LOT OF US DON'T HAVE, AND IT'S
DIFFICULT TO EXERCISE COMPASSION WITH PEOPLE THAT WANT TO HATE
YOU OR KILL YOU, THEY ARE WORKING TO REVERSE THE EFFECTS
OF RACISM AND BIGOTRY AND HATRED.
SO IF THIS STORY STARTLES YOU, GO LOOK UP LIFE AFTER HATE.