Teachers in the United Kingdom are upset. Many of their young adolescent boy students, rebelling against feminism, are listening to the Manosphere’s Andrew Tate and are espousing his hyper-masculine views. These teachers say the lads are being “brainwashed” and find this most troubling, which is understandable.
They no doubt feel that’s their job.
Tate, an ex-kick boxer, former reality TV star, and British “influencer” reportedly worth $100 million, figures prominently in the news at present because of a December 30 arrest in Romania on sex-trafficking and rape charges. Tate, who was taken into custody after a high-profile Twitter dust-up with teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, denies the allegations.
Undeniable is that the 36-year-old Tate has great influence. He “amassed millions of followers across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok,” informed the Independent December 30, and “Google Trends ranked him the eighth most searched person globally in 2022.”
I first learned about Tate last year from a very intelligent, highly moral teen son of a friend. As far as video-watching goes, however, I mainly know Tate from an interview he granted to Fox host Tucker Carlson last August on the matter of his social-media “cancellation.” In that appearance, he came off as someone trying to help young men improve themselves and was relatively articulate (though he did have a curious habit of frequently using, and misusing, the word “purport”).
As for Tate’s influence on boys, Fox News reports that a south London school “rounded up” approximately 30 14-year-olds to discuss the man’s positions. “After the conversation turned into a debate about rape and if women were [partially] at fault for being sexually assaulted, which is a view held by Tate and about 10 of the students, a male teacher asked the students how they would feel if one of their family members was a rape victim,” Fox writes, drawing from a report by Britain’s Sunday Times.
(Note: Here’s what Tate said about women and rape.)
“‘At that point a lot of the boys changed their tones when I put their mother or sister in that spot, but it was worrying that a few core kids didn’t and still said they would be to blame,’ the teacher, who spoke anonymously, told The Times,” Fox continued.
Now, here’s something that apparently escaped the rest of the media: The above report doesn’t explicitly state that the 10 boys who agree with Tate actually got their beliefs from him. This is significant, mind you, because the aforementioned school is in south London; this is a city with a multitude of Muslims, people known to hold, well, let’s say, anti-feminist views. More on that momentarily.
Fox also tells us that Tate,
a self-described misogynist [he might have said this tongue-in-cheek], has a massive following on social media, consisting of mostly young men. Videos of him claiming women “belong in the kitchen” and should be controlled by men have been widely shared on TikTok and other social media platforms.
Sophie Whitehead — who works at the School of Sexuality Education, which provides workshops on consent — called his rhetoric “violent” and said it has “affected so many young people.”
“It is a version of radicalization as far as I’m concerned,” Whitehead said.
…[Teachers] in the south London classrooms have tried to explain that misogynistic jokes and rhetoric can escalate to serious crime like sexual harassment and rape.
Jay Jordan, a teacher from Dundee in Scotland, told The Times the recent interest in Tate’s influence is evident among her students and “it is worrying.”
“You used to have to deal with sexist stuff, but now it is explicitly connected to Andrew Tate — the boys do not stop talking about him,” she said, adding that one of her male students told her she was “just a woman” after she reprimanded him.
Harking back to the earlier point, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Were these boys influenced by Tate or did they just find in him a kindred spirit? This isn’t to defend or condemn the man. I don’t have a horse in this race (except, as always, the Truth) and do have my own problems with Tate, mainly his lack of philosophical depth and the materialism he encourages. But note that Tate recently converted to Islam; meaning, it wouldn’t be surprising if Muslim students were now embracing him. Also note that the city Jordan teaches in, Dundee, has Scotland’s fourth-largest Muslim population.
Consider, too, that we’ve heard before about Islamic values clashing with European schools’ Western norms. In 2013, a state-funded school in northern England required even non-Muslim female teachers to wear headscarves, and it was reported in 2016 that a Muslim student refused to shake a female educator’s hand in Germany.
This gets at a point: The U.K. is a place where authorities covered up the rape/sexual abuse of approximately 1,400 native British girls by Muslim gangs for 16 years, and the nation actually has Muslim-dominated “no-go zones.” So is Andrew Tate really their problem? Is he their real radicalization threat?
Speaking of which, the top commenter on the Fox article wrote, “Modern teachers worried about ‘brain washing’. That’s rich.” It sure is. Schools today are left-wing indoctrination mills, peddling sexual devolutionary, racial, and anti-Western propaganda.
So they can complain about radicalization, but they’re the people who teach kids they can switch sexes at will and offer them puberty blockers. And whatever the truth behind the Romanian authorities’ charges, that’s a worse crime against humanity than anything of which Tate is accused.
