Andrew Tate challenged social media platforms to a treacherous game of whack-a-mole.
I think it’s twofold. For a lot of the kids, TikTok was the entry. At first, they responded to his look, which was so exaggerated, so caricatured and hyperbolic. They thought he was hilarious; they thought he was a cartoon. He was saying all the stuff that you’re not supposed to say in liberal blue circles, and teenage boys just loved that—so that’s the entry point. But underneath that, if you look at Tate in long-form and not on TikTok, you see that what he’s offering is a kind of self-help.
He said things like: “Women are property.” “The intimate parts of women’s bodies belong to their men.” “They can’t drive.” “They are bad leaders.” “They are untrustworthy.
If I can just compartmentalize all this misogyny and follow Tate, his steps to being a man, that will be OK.What do you think the indictment in Romania does to Tate’s popularity? Does it matter?in the winter of this year, Tate was already in jail and his popularity was already dimming in its broad scope. He wasn’t on everybody’s For You pages anymore. The boys at school who used to say “Free Tate” weren’t saying that anymore. It just wasn’t quite so present by the winter.
I think kids are flexible and resilient, and a lot of the kids I spoke to see their own hypocrisies. Even though they try to do this brain thing of “Misogyny is bad, but Andrew Tate is funny and good,” they’re also able to say, “I don’t want to be that kind of guy.” And they’re able to talk about that too.
When you’re a teenager, you do stupid and dangerous things, but it doesn’t mean you turn out to be a horrible person—which is not to let anybody off the hook, because I really do think there is a pathway to radicalization that is real and dangerous. But I also think it’s not universal, it’s not inevitable, it’s not irreversible.
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