Andrew Tate may have been arrested and jailed for allegedly trafficking and
assaulting women, but he still has many loyal supporters and
some of them are as young as school children unfortunately.
Now teachers are struggling to de radicalize the young misogynists in their
classroom and this is really concerning because it gives you a sense of just
how widespread Andrew Tate's influence has been on not just young men,
but in this case young boys.
So Tate has received a lot of media attention lately, but teachers and
parents say that kids have long been familiar with his content online.
One teacher in South London noticed that his students, we're parodying Tate's
ideology and tried to start a conversation with them about it,
which I'm super grateful for is trying to kind of de program what these kids have
learned through Andrew Tate's material.
The teacher tried to talk through a presentation he made about the issue,
but that was quickly derailed by an argument about rape.
About a third of the 30 students in the class passionately argued that women
were responsible for their own sexual assaults one of Tate's top lines.
The male teacher asked pupils how they would feel if the victim were a female
family member.
At that point, a lot of the boys changed their tone when I put their mother or
sister in that spot, said the educator.
But it was worrying that a few core kids didn't and still said that
they would be to blame and that wasn't even the end of the misogyny.
Some teenagers said that women were the property of men and
that they should stay in the house or submit to their husbands well.
So Jake this is something that's kind of been on my radar,
not this specific story involving this class, but
just the void that I think the left has contributed to when it
comes to offering advice and help and mentorship to young boys.
I mean there seems to be like a rejection that there is a crisis currently occurring
with young men in the country.
We can get into that in a moment but I wanted to get your thoughts.
>> So first of all, let me just say that people are treating this like this
is the first outbreak of misogyny by teenage boys in human history.
No, when I was growing up,
boys were probably just as misogynistic as you're seeing this story, okay?
Now but there is a difference, now before we had one media and
Walter, Cronkite was on and Dan rather was on etc.
And they were gonna do this nonsense, right?
Because they were trying to appeal to a broad audience and there were no niches.
There were just mass media, television, radio,
newspapers trying to reach everybody, right?
Now media is splintered, so there are niches everywhere.
So now we have people that take some of the bad instincts that normally
arise as hormones are kicking in for teenage boys and
they think, good, that's a market that I can serve.
So I'm going to monetize that market by saying, you're right teenage boys,
you should hate women especially the ones not dating you and
should treat them roughly and you should believe terrible things about them etc.
Andrew Tate made up from what I can tell made most of his money
charging kids like this, nearly 50 bucks a month,
a month for his tutorials on how to be a hustler, right?
So he's literally monetizing our worst instincts and
then thereby spreading them even more.
>> Yeah, I mean it's bad.
So that was one educators experience, let's hear from another teacher.
And this person's experience with students who consume Andrew Tate's material.
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.
In one class the teacher J Jordan's reprimanded a 14 year old,
you're just a woman, he responded.
Which students are more likely to fall under Tate's spell?
Well, I think that's the most important part of the story, right?
Because this is where there could be intervention.
This is where I think look, I just think the left is better and
I do think that there are boys and young men.
I mean, you see it in the statistics like the prevalence of suicidal ideation,
the prevalence of actually carrying that out.
Their self-reporting on how alienated and lonely they feel,
how they can't even name a single close friend in their lives.
This is not good, these are obviously problems.
And when you have someone present himself as a mentor,
as someone who has all the answers as Andrew Tate does as Jordan Peterson does.
Well, that creates a culture that the left is again straight.
We don't want that culture and unfortunately we're seeing it play out
now, so which students are more likely to fall for Andrew Tate spell?
Anonymous North London teacher says quote, it's the most vulnerable and
socially awkward boys that are drawn in and
given a sense of belonging to something that is very dangerous.
Teachers also state that young boys are drawn to Andrew Tate because of his big
houses and fancy cars and this is the other really depressing part.
You see this all over the place with a lot of young people actually where like I
could just be an influencer, that's what I want to be,
it's my dream, I want to be an influencer.
Now in this case, they wanna be the kind of influencer that Andrew Tate is selling.
Boys are attracted to him because he tells them he is successful and rich,
he is selling a lifestyle.
When we mention his hatefulness toward women,
some excuse it as simply creating a successful life for yourself.
One teacher said that some pupils we're giving up on studying for
exams, feeling that they no longer needed education to thrive.
The students always end up saying quote, I can get rich on the Internet,
that's what Andrew Tate did and quote.
>> Look guys, this is dangerous stuff because Andrew Tate has talked
about how women are partly responsible for their own rapes.
And he says, women have no redeeming are inferior,
should stay in the kitchen, should just be servants of men.
And if you get young people to believe that, that is very,
very dangerous young men, right?
Because now we're not talking just about opinions, but
when it comes to some of these actions that he says including sexual assault and
he's glorifying it, that is super dangerous.
And so, but to an original point, the answer isn't just going after Andrew Tate.
The answer is also giving a productive outlet, not saying like hey,
all those boys are the worst people in the world and we should hate them too.
No, and by the way, when educators go and give these presentations about
how you shouldn't be misogynistic like this, guess what happens?
For some of the kids, it doesn't get through to them at all, but for
other kids it does.
And they go yeah, I never thought about it that way.
That's a good point, right, I wouldn't want that happening to my mom,
my sister, etc.
And now I begin to understand it because that's what happens when you're
growing up.
You are introduced to a lot of new ideas.
Some makes sense, some of them don't make any sense, some of them jive with what you
were previously taught and others are totally against it and
you cycle through those ideas until you land in a certain place.
And so it's important for us to give them an alternative.
There's nothing wrong with being a boy.
And I know that there's sometimes rivalry with girls when you're in that age range,
right?
But there's a better way to handle that than misogyny.