Andrew Tate is blowing up
online right now, and his controversial opinions on ‘being a man and making
money’ are creating headlines across the web. Recently the kickboxer, casino
owner and millionaire entrepreneur has been appearing in more streams and has
caught the attention of some parts of the Twitch and gaming community,
especially after a heated debate with streamer HasanAbi.
Some young men are listening
to Tate’s advice, his ‘Hustler’s University’ training programme which claims to
have amassed 110,000 students in a year and are taking it as the gospel.
Others are saying his misogynistic views and promotion of arrogance, of the
self, over compassion and empathy, are having a negative impact on young,
impressionable minds. ENUK editor Dom Sacco weighs in with his views in this
opinion piece.
“The nicer your cars and the
more money you have, sometimes the bigger the trouble [you have]. Legal
trouble, lawyer trouble, you can end up in jail, all these things.
“The key to happiness is not
having a happy life. It’s having a mindset that allows you to be happy in any
situation.”
These are not quotes taken out
of context and thrown together, they’re from this video of Andrew Tate
talking about having money and what comes with it.
‘The key to happiness is not having
a happy life, it’s having a mindset that allows you to be happy’. Even when you
have legal claims made against you and even if you’re in prison, you can still
be happy (with the right mindset, of course).
I’ve listened to this and
absorbed it, like I have with other things Tate has said, and I can’t get on
board with it.
Is having a mindset that
allows you to be happy not in itself a happy life? Can you truly be happy if
you lose everything, these material things that Tate flaunts, and go to prison?
This is just one example of Tate’s teachings.
I’ve listened to a lot of his
videos, and I can see how he’s leaving a mark on people. He’s assured,
confident and motivational.
But he also talks a lot of
shite.
“Depression isn’t real,” being
one example.
Tate talks about kings of
bygone eras being able to sleep with more than one woman, as a reason for him
to be able to cheat or have multiple partners.
As a parent myself, one thing
I can’t understand is someone who isn’t a mother or father giving advice on
taking care of children, for example.
In this Andrew Tate video
interview with Layah Heilpern, he said ‘a father doesn’t need to be around’
their children, that it’s the mother’s job to look after kids, and that he saw
his dad once a month when he was younger.
“If you’re home all the time,
you lose a degree of mystery,” he says, “and for a female to retain her
attraction to a man, there has to be mystery”, before saying fathers were at
war or down in the coalmines, and how ‘this is how it’s always been’. The man
is stuck in the past, he’s fighting for it but can’t accept times have changed.
Perhaps like a lot of other people can’t. And in placing feelings women have
for him over being there for his children in the future, shows exactly the
kind of self-centered person he is.
“I’m 100% gonna have kids and
I’m excited to have kids, I’m gonna raise them the same way I was raised, with
nothing, with zero, I was raised the hard way,” Tate added in the video linked
at the top of this article.
