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When you think about it, it should have had something to offend everyone: origins in "occultic" Eastern religions to spook the right-wing Christians, violence and militarism to upset liberals and parent-groups, the sheer "Asian-ness" of it to piss off the America First crowd, etc.

But, for some reason, no significant backlash ever developed against martial arts, at least not one that acquired any significant amount of media or governmental attention(compared to, say, Dungeons And Dragons or heavy metal music). With a POD no earlier than the mid-1970s, the challenge is to make that happen, and possibly speculate on the sociopolitical impact.
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