Leaving aside Andrew Tate’s ongoing criminal case, I think we can all agree there are some pretty silly articles about the Tate phenomenon appearing in the mainstream media.
Now the Sunday Times has weighed in to tell us how teachers are trying to undo Tate’s evil ‘brainwashing’. Remember, the only people who should be brainwashing children are Left-wing teachers.
“It is a version of radicalisation as far as I’m concerned,” says Sophie Whitehead, who works at the School of Sexuality Education, which provides workshops on consent. “His rhetoric is so violent and it has affected so many young people.”
The south London teacher helped to explain the impact of Tate’s words by creating a pyramid, showing how some actions such as using violent words could escalate to criminal behaviour.
Ignore Tate, look at the pyramid!
A female teacher at another school said that some pupils were giving up on studying for exams, feeling that they no longer needed education to thrive. “They [pupils] always end up saying, ‘I can get rich on the internet, that’s what Andrew Tate did’,” she said.
Would it be such a terrible thing for boys who are being failed by the education system to learn skills that will help them succeed online? I for one would have much rather learned to code than learned about stalactites.
The Sunday Times also appears to need some online education, as it claims Tate is still running his Hustler’s University course, which in fact was replaced by The Real World some time ago.
But instead the offline re-education continues:
At assembly in the Oxfordshire schools, pupils are told about why expressions such as ‘man up’ or ‘be a man’ should not be used. At St Dunstan’s, a co-educational fee-paying school in London, teachers try to have discussions about Tate and establish what pupils know before feeding teenagers more information. News articles about Tate are deconstructed with older pupils.
Whether one loves or hates Tate, or believes he is guilty or innocent, it is obvious he is a symptom of a culture that demonises men and boys and allows them to fall behind. Instead of listening to these young men, their out-of-touch guardians act aghast and tell them they are wrong, leading to absurdly tone-deaf claims like the following:
Yet despite Tate’s views, indicative of a wider misogynistic culture on the internet and sweeping through schools, there is still hope.
Hope for what exactly? And why should we trust these teachers to steer boys, who appear to have been let down by those who should be guiding them, in the right direction?
That is my take, but make up your own minds by reading the full piece.
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What an absolute farce modernising the past is. Maybe just leave the past as we find it and accept the present as it is.
Tut, tut, dear sir. You’re entirely insufficiently post-modern. Everything is just what we make of it. Since the past is defenseless and harmless, revolutionizing it is always easily possible.
This should be artisans and not artists and my suggestion would be “Let them have it”. The descendents of the people who created these works can keep them should they value the work of their ancestors. Or melt them to turn them into ammunition. Or whatever they want to do with them.
That would serve no good purpose. Certain things, such as great art and antiquities, transcend conventional concepts of ownership and must be considered as belonging to all humanity. A person or organisation may pay millions for the privilege of having custody of these brilliant, irreplaceable objects, but where their loss would be a loss to all humanity, they cannot have the right to destroy.
We can all benefit so much from having these pieces on public display, and perhaps the ideal situation would be to have some in Europe, some in America, some in their native Africa, and so on. But if there is a real risk of them being lost forever in Africa, we in the west, as their supposedly enlightened guardians, have a duty to shield them.
If you want this seriously crude stuff, feel free to keep it on your lawn or in your attic or whatever other place suits you. If it was mine, I’d advertise it as free to collect. Curiosities from all over the empire are not part of my cultural heritage. Here, I sort-of agree with the wokesters: They want this because they believe it’s valuabe (in the sense of $$$). And my opinion on that is If they believe this is valuable, the problem of storing it should be theirs.