I Have to Get This Off My Chest

Andrew Tate is, for some reason, a divisive figure among some people on the Right. 

I don’t get it. He is, to me, self-evidently a scumbag. A degenerate sexual predator who has bragged for years about how he made his fortune by pimping out and sexually abusing women. 

I’m not relying on hearsay to arrive at that conclusion. Tate has left a long trail of videos not only bragging about his abuse and exploitation of women. I am no prosecutor and therefore cannot point to any particular laws that he has broken, but if I were sitting on a jury after a prosecutor showed me statutes that he clearly broke, I would happily see him tossed in jail for a long time. 

Real men don’t abuse women, and if your definition of an Alpha Male is one who chokes women, treats them like dirt and brags about it, and bullies them into selling their bodies to fill his bank account, I would be happy to be called a Beta Male. I’m out if that is what the definition of a Real Man™ is. 

The Tate brothers are back in the news because they were released on bail from Romania and has returned to the United States–Florida, to be specific. And Florida doesn’t want them there. 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced that a criminal investigation has been launched into Andrew and Tristan Tate, following their arriving in Florida recently after fleeing from their legal case in Romania, with him stating, “These guys have themselves publicly… pic.twitter.com/hYr27R5pjB

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 4, 2025

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced that a criminal investigation has been launched into Andrew and Tristan Tate, following their arriving in Florida recently after fleeing from their legal case in Romania, with him stating, “These guys have themselves publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world — some of them minors.” 

A chorus of Tate supporters are angry about the supposedly bad treatment of the Tates, and point to claims that Donald Trump intervened on their behalf. Trump says he knows nothing about the matter, and Tate himself says that he has never spoken to Trump. Whatever the case, it is clear that there is a wing on the Right who defend the Tate brothers and say that the legal case against them in Romania is a witch hunt. 

If you want to call it that, fine. But if that is your definition of a witch hunt, Tate is a witch. Be warned, lots of NSFW content in these videos. 

A comprehensive thread of videos proving Andrew Tate is scum & belongs in prison:

Andrew Tate = Human Trafficker pic.twitter.com/PTV2lbdxgL

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

Andrew Tate is a bad dude and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you pic.twitter.com/Q67c2EB17h

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) February 27, 2025

Tate took pride in teaching others how to abuse women for fun and profit, and there are plenty of videos available which I will not share in which Tate is beating women for the camera. 

Andrew Tate = Child Groomer pic.twitter.com/qjzhm1XI4b

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

Andrew Tate = Compulsive Liar pic.twitter.com/KdSW0wN2KL

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

Andrew Tate matters societally not because he is an abusive and likely criminal abuser of women, but because his “persecution” has become a cause célèbre for a certain wing on the Right in the same way that antisemitic conspiracies have been popping up in some of the dark corners of both the Left and the Right Tate has scored some media support from commentators like Candice Owens, who seems to admire him for his relatively compelling argument that Western Civilization has become too feminized. 

Tate is a self-professed Muslim who rejects monogamy and promotes polyamory, condemns the nuclear family, has vilely boasted about defiling young Christian girls, and claims that women are incapable of loyalty.https://t.co/sJv24ZBcGD

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) March 4, 2025

In some instances, his diagnosis is correct, but the “solutions” that he sells to his credulous followers is to embrace the most demonic elements of masculinity. In response to the sometimes cloying “sensitive man” you find in the Gillette commercials Tate calls on men to embrace their inner rapist, as if the corrective to the excesses of one extreme view of masculinity should be corrected by becoming an ape. 

Andrew Tate = Brands his Victims pic.twitter.com/X5WLluMHLD

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

Andrew Tate = Scammer pic.twitter.com/0R9wajgO88

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

Tate, when he wants to, talks a good game and can look into the camera and deny what we have seen with our own eyes. And we have seen it with our own eyes not because some leaker who has it out for him edited videos to make him look bad, but because Tate put them out himself and bragged about how abusive he could be and still pimp women and make a fortune off their pain. 

Andrew Tate = Confesses to Being R@pist pic.twitter.com/55E5rOPSQD

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 2, 2025

You could make some absurd arguments about consent, but the same could be said about street hookers and pimps. Technically they could escape at any time, but that doesn’t wash with me, and is irrelevant when talking about Tate’s character. Whether he has provably committed crimes is a matter for the courts. 

Andrew Tate = P@rn Hypocrisy pic.twitter.com/F9LKfmeIoX

— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 3, 2025

Whether you admire him is a matter for your conscience. And admiring a man like Tate and giving him respectability…I’m out. 

Andrew Tate is scum, and he should be ostracized and denounced at minimum. 

Andrew Tate converted to Islam as his stance resembles Islam’s take on women. pic.twitter.com/ir3GqCpkLJ

— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) January 14, 2025

How conservatives can be divided in their opinion of Tate–how any people of good will can be, regardless of their political ideology–is a mystery to me. The fact that he repels the liberals is no reason to embrace him. They are right to be repelled. 

Western Civilization is going to be destroyed by Christians not embracing a terrorist-supporting Muslim pimp and pornographer who teaches young men to trade in human flesh and to reject marriage is quite a take.

But Jason lost the thread a long time ago. https://t.co/QjTgqxV2P7

— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) March 6, 2025

Defining your beliefs as the opposite of what you see in your ideological opponents is giving up your moral agency to people you dislike or disagree with. When they are right, they are right. When they are wrong, they are wrong. 

Liberals and conservatives should be able to agree that a pimp who hits, sexually abuses, and exploits women is a bad dude.