Andrew Tate on Misogyny Claims and Being Deplatformed

TL;DR

Tate rejects the misogynist label by arguing that hours of long-form video have been cut into two- or three-second clips that strip out his context. He says he has no criminal record for hurting women and no accuser, and that his "property" comment referred to a bride taking a husband's last name. Morgan counters that the words still came out of Tate's mouth and reach impressionable teenagers.

Transcript

one of the most infamous men in the world Andrew Tate's misogynistic tirade have been viewed billions of Times online he's now been effectively banned though from the internet he doesn't think that's fair tonight I'm going to try and work out if it is from London this is Piers Morgan uncensored well good evening from London and welcome to special e... Read More

Key Insights

• Andrew Tate was at one point searched on Google more than Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian, according to Morgan's introduction. Tate is described as the most famous man you probably never heard of, with billions of views online before the platform bans.
• Tate's central defence is the context argument: he says hours and hours of video have been cut down to two or three second clips, those clips have gone viral, and people misunderstand him as a result.
• Tate accepts a scaling responsibility standard. He says a video seen by 500 people where one percent misunderstand it is not a problem, but the same misunderstanding rate on a video seen by 5 million people is.
• Tate says he has no negative relationship with women, no women have come forward saying he hurt them, and he has no criminal record for hurting women, which he offers as evidence he cannot be cast as the face of how men treat women.
• On rape, Tate says he thinks it is disgusting and would take a stronger stance than the British government, favouring the death penalty, while arguing that accusations without evidence have repeatedly destroyed men's lives.
• Tate's Romania comment was framed around the metoo period and cases such as Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, where he argues men were accused of things they did not do without evidence and had their lives destroyed.
• The "property" remark is defended as religious. Tate says a bride's father walks her down the aisle and hands her to the groom, that this is what the Bible says, and that in practice she takes his last name and the couple hold different roles.
• Morgan's stated objection is not the pro-male material but the portion he calls blatant misogyny, roughly 10 to 20 percent of Tate's output, which combined with massive reach is why social media companies effectively cancelled him.
• Joe Rogan's quoted verdict frames the debate: Rogan told his children Tate is a legitimate world champion kickboxer he likes a lot, then said Tate messed it up with the misogyny, and that the pro-male material alone would have been fine.
• Morgan's editorial position is that outrageous opinions read aloud can be challenged and exposed, whereas silencing the person holding them can turn that person into a martyr.

Questions & Answers

Q: Why was Andrew Tate banned from social media?

Tate was booted off Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok over his online videos, which Morgan describes as containing often scandalous views on women. Morgan's framing is that a portion of Tate's output, which he estimates at roughly 10 to 20 percent, appears on its face to be blatant misogyny, and that when this is combined with Tate's massive influence and huge reach, the social media companies decided to effectively cancel him. To his fans he is a misunderstood satirist and a victim of big tech censorship; to many others he is a malicious misogynist.

Q: What is Andrew Tate's defence against the misogyny accusations?

His main defence is context. Tate says he has been producing content for a very long time, that hours and hours of video have been cut down to two or three second clips, that those clips went viral, and that people therefore misunderstand him. He states directly that he does not hate women in any regard, that he has no negative relationship with women, that no women have come forward saying he hurt them, and that he has no criminal record for hurting women. He also says he believes in protecting and providing.

Q: What did Andrew Tate mean by saying his sister is her husband's property?

Tate says the remark was a religious point. His argument is that when a man marries a woman, the bride's father walks her down the aisle and hands her to the groom, and that this is what the Bible says. Asked to restate it, he says that if a woman marries a man and decides to take his last name, she has joined his family and the couple have different roles and responsibilities within that marriage. Morgan pushes back that he has been married twice and never believed his wife was handed to him as chattel.

Q: What did Andrew Tate say about rape and the metoo movement?

In the clip Morgan plays, Tate says roughly 40 percent of the reason he moved to Romania is that in Eastern Europe an accusation about something from 1988 would be dismissed by police. Challenged on it, Tate says he thinks rape is disgusting and would take a stronger stance than the British government, arguing such people should face the death penalty. His stated concern is that if women can make accusations without evidence, a contingent will do so, and he cites metoo and the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp case as examples where men's lives were destroyed.

Q: Why did Piers Morgan interview Andrew Tate instead of ignoring him?

Morgan says he does not believe in cancellation or censorship, and that tens of millions of people across the world follow Tate, which brings both a big responsibility and a public interest in holding his views to account. His stated logic is that if outrageous opinions are read aloud they can be challenged and exposed for what they are, whereas if they are silenced the person holding them can become a martyr. He also says viewers should see the offensive clips themselves rather than simply hear what others say about them.

Q: What did Joe Rogan say about Andrew Tate?

Rogan described being asked about Tate by his 12 year old and 14 year old. He told them Tate is a legitimate world champion kickboxer and that he likes him a lot. When they asked why, he noted Tate says a lot of funny stuff on Twitter and TikTok, then added that Tate messed it up with the misogyny, saying that if he had just stuck to the pro-male material it would have been different. Morgan quotes this because he says he lands in the same place as Rogan on Tate.

Q: How does Andrew Tate explain why he became so famous in 2022?

Tate rejects the idea that anything sudden or magical happened, pointing out he has been on the internet for a very long time. His explanation is that as the people who disagree with him become more tyrannical in their censorship and hate mobs, and as standard masculine practices are deemed toxic, he accumulated a large amount of affinity with the male populace across the Western world. In his framing he is simply saying things that many men already believe, think and feel, and the reaction to that is what drove the surge.

Q: Does Andrew Tate accept responsibility for how his clips affect teenagers?

Partly. Tate says he is a person who takes personal responsibility and that he will not claim he cannot be taken out of context, but he argues the world now runs on TikTok videos five or six seconds long with no content. He offers a scaling standard: a video seen by 500 people where one percent misunderstand it is not a problem, but the same rate on a video seen by 5 million is, so he accepts he must be more careful now that he is famous. Morgan's counter is that impressionable teenagers will never watch the hour-long original.

Q: What is Andrew Tate's background before he became an online figure?

According to Morgan's introduction, Tate is a former professional kickboxer who was kicked off Big Brother in 2016 after a video emerged of him striking a woman, an incident both parties now claim was a consensual sex game. He has since made millions as a pornographer and casino owner in Romania. His notoriety comes from online videos in which he poses as a playboy with fast cars, cigars, weapons and cash, and sells young men digital life lessons promising they can get as rich as he is.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• Piers Morgan opens by framing Andrew Tate as one of the most infamous men in the world, a former professional kickboxer with billions of online views who was booted off Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Morgan says he opposes cancellation and censorship, and invited Tate on so his opinions could be read aloud and challenged rather than silenced.

• Tate explains his sudden fame as accumulated affinity with the male populace across the Western world, saying he is voicing what many men already believe and feel while standard masculine practices get labelled toxic. He denies any magic to the surge, noting he has produced content on the internet for a very long time before the clips went viral.

• The interview turns on context. Tate repeatedly argues that hours of long-form video have been chopped into a few seconds and spread across social media alongside his fame. Morgan presses that the sentences still came out of Tate's mouth, and that impressionable teenagers seeing a clip on TikTok will not seek out the hour-long original.