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Re: Violence Under the Pretext of Love
I think that there's a lot of rhetoric in Aikido that helps make this kind of thing possible.
As an example, how many times have you heard, "In Aikido, the attacker throws themselves!"
Well if you're taking the ukemi, and you're throwing yourself, and you get hurt, it's not *my* fault (as the nage). Why did you hurt yourself? That's just one example of how a lot of what people *think* Aikido is about, can lead to or at least enable abuse in the dojo.
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