There are plenty of people like that, alas. Wagner was a horrible misogynist and anti-Semite, Carl Orff was a Nazi sympathizer and Herbert von Karajan was an actual Nazi (there is a documented photo of him in an SS uniform I've seen in a history journal), as was the philosopher Martin Heidegger. William Shockley, inventor of the transistor (and thus the grandfather of the modern electronic computer) was a eugenics nut who belived everyone of African descent to be racially inferior (this was long before Lucy and the tracing of mitchondrial lineages, but it wouldn't have mattered to WS, probably) The list of vicious hate-filled people includes plenty who were far from mediocre at what they did. It's so disappointing when you find that someone you really liked was a just another bigoted jerk like the rest of them...
Oh now if you want to through reality into it, what are you some sort of HEROIC Cynical Curmudgeons.
who thinks that their is very little respect in some of the martial arts communitys now days,
I will answer this in a way that will undoubtedly make me look very old, but that's ok.
You are right, things are not what they use to be, and it was very different when I started training back in the Stone Age. But this means that in some cases it is a bad thing and in others a good thing.
There was an Aikido school near me way back when (early 70s) where the Sifu sat in front of the class and did absolutely nothing but stare and shout out orders. He was claiming all sorts of training background and having his most senior student, who had trained with someone else previously, did all of the teaching.
My Jujitsu teacher knew about him and we were all pretty certain he was a fraud. But due to the claims he had made about his background none of his students would question him and all pretty much showed him respect based on his claims (this is bad). And my Jujitsu teacher did not feel it was his place to do anything, it wasn’t Jujitsu.
This Aikido school did close down rather abruptly however. It was rumored that someone of a real Aikido lineage found out and paid him a visit (rumor was Mitsunari Kanai went to “talk” to him) but it was a rumor. (this would be good)
But my Sensei for Jujitsu was very skilled and we all showed him respect but on occasion there would be someone who questioned it and he generally let it go until they challenged him or crossed the line (one guy actually tried to slap him in the face in front of the class for no reason other than he felt like it) and they it was sparing time and he could back up his background (this is good). today however if you do something like this you will get sued so respect may have been earned but that does not necessarily mean that some idiot will give respect where it is due (this is bad). And this also earns that some idiot will not sit in front of class claim mastery when he does not have it. However if he does his students may eventually question him however it is highly unlikely that a master of the art will show up and "talk" to you. (this is both good and bad)
There is currently a school near me that the teacher is from China and does have a Wushu background but he has put money before his art and his students fully believe he is a master of 100 different styles and show him respect because of his claims. However one of the things he now teaches and claims lineage to is Chen. He did learn some Chen in China but not the stuff he now teaches and claims to have leered fro the Chen family. He did get a visit from a Chen family member who did tell him to stop. But as Mr. Chen said, I can tell him to stop, but this is America and beyond that there is really nothing I can do... but he did say...if this where China it would be a completely different thing.
