BJJ linked to Fascism

[Joinho10]

http://www.thescrap.co/helio-gracie-linked-to-1930s-brazilian-fascism-movement/

Brazilian jiu-jitsu founding father, Helio Gracie linked to a Brazilian fascist movement

According to the article, Helio Gracie was a member of the Brazilian fascist movement Integralism. The research dives deep into the fascist movement going as far to include a photo of the senior Gracie that has since been tied to the organization

"Integralism is the belief that the Catholic faith should be the basis of public law and policy within a society. This movement first appeared in Brazil in 1932, where founder Plinio Salgado began feeding its ideology to his people. In hindsight, many have claimed that Salgado was to fascists (in Brazil) who Hitler was to Germans; a huge and very profound comparison"

Helio Garcie appears on Integralism newspaper with a green shirt that has a symbol of the Greek letter Sigma, one of Integralism’s main tokens.

BJJ in the mud yet again.





Btw don't forget

Post your favorite BJJ slander below. Let's have some fun.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Good grief, he's fucking dead as fuck and that was 84 years ago

Helio invented leverage, he gets a pass

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Ban jitz

 

[Joinho10]

Good grief, he's fucking dead as fuck and that was 84 years ago

Helio invented leverage, he gets a pass

Sorry mate I'm not giving up a chance to shit on BJJ

 

[Joinho10]

Ban jitz

CANCEL JITZ NOW!

 

[Zarate]

fook teh gracie's

 

[Kryptt]

Does he have a statue somewhere we can topple?

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Sorry mate I'm not giving up a chance to shit on BJJ

Ah, gotcha. Carry on (I love grappling but I'm not into the pyramid scheme/cult aspect of BJJ)

 

[Deleted member 359865]

weak thread, barely UFC specific. Move to Lightweights

 

[Jose Beehive]

Does he have a statue somewhere we can topple?

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Does he have a statue somewhere we can topple?

 

[MM808]

BJJM

 

[Pillar of Society]

Helio would be banned from entering UFC confirmed.

Maybe he even had some nasty tatoos.

 

[Kryptt]

Ut oh...

 

[PhilJackObrien]

Facism is dead. Communism is alive.

 

[Bangkok ready d1]

Brazilian here, my great grandparent was part of the integralist movement as well.
First off were the integralist fascists? Well it depends on how you want to define fascism because the integralists were persecuted by vargas ( brazilian president at that time ) and vargas was a know "fascist" himself.
You can put the integralists as a fascist movement since they were against communism, against free market capitalism and had pretty nationalistic view, but them we would have to put a lot of other movements on the fascist banner ( in the end this is a really politicezed view on how to define them as a political movement)

But, one thing that people don't probably know here, there are a lot of different types of fascism and the integralist movement had a very big difference from the nazism fascism... They were not racist, in fact they were one of the first political parties in brazil to be openly against racism and had a lot of black and mixed race people on the party. This is huge cause racist ideas were pretty much mainstream in brazilian politics at that time and the integralists were one of the first movements to go against this.

 

[cade187]

I haven’t researched any of this, but old school catholic’s believing that religion and law should go hand in hand hardly sounds like fascism.

 

[Zarate]

Facism is dead. Communism is alive.

viva la revolucion !

 

[winkydinks]

Don't you have a Salon article to go read?

 

[Jose Beehive]

Ut oh...

Carlson here looking pretty Churchill like

I'd walk all over this shit if I saw it on a beach too.