March 2024 – Andrew Tate
Emory Andrew Tate – was born in December 1986, and his website says he is from Chicago, Illinois. Tate was a kickboxing world champion four times – but it was online where he found worldwide fame. Tate has appeared in countless videos, flaunting an ultra-luxurious lifestyle of fast cars, private jets, and yachts which has led to a huge online following, especially young men. In an interview with another YouTuber, he said he was “absolutely a misogynist”, and added: “I’m a realist and when you’re a realist, you’re sexist. There’s no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.” In that same video, he described women as “intrinsically lazy” and said there was “no such thing as an independent female”.
‘A misogynist is a person who dislikes, despises or is strongly prejudiced against women’, Andrew Tate gained a large following of people who declared themselves to be misogynists and follow his ideologies.
Tate was arrested in 2022 along with his brother after stating that is job was ‘to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, test if she’s quality, get her to fall in love with me to where she’d do anything I say and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together,” He was arrested due to an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape.
He also declared in a BBC interview that he was a ‘force for good’ and that he was ‘acting under the instruction of God to do good things’
What does this mean to you?
Tate shows extremist views and it is important that these are prevented, due to his lavish lifestyle his following grew and it is important to educate others as to what his ideologies mean in practice and that they are harmful. If you speak to someone who agrees with Tate’s ideologies it is the time to put measures into place such as referral to Prevent to stop them from harming others.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64125045
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/03/andrew-tate-symptom-not-problem-why-young-men-turning-against-feminism