According to Coleman Hughes, a 28-year-old political commentator and author, self-described misogynist Andrew Tate’s growing popularity among young men comes as a reaction to the “feminization” of popular culture.
Hughes said, “Insofar as Andrew Tate’s macho, male-dominated politics are popular, one of the reasons is as a reaction to this feminization of the culture.”
He points to the left’s ongoing war on ‘toxic masculinity’, particularly in education, which sometimes extends to shaming normal childish behaviour, such as policing as part of the “anti-bullying” movement. to do.
“As a reaction to his excesses, it creates a vacuum where someone like Andrew Tate can come in and just talk about fighting women and denigrating them,” Hughes says in the latest episode of “ “we never had this conversationA podcast hosted by The Post’s Rikki Schlott on Bill Maher’s Club Random Network.
British-American Tate has over 10 million followers on X and runs an unaccredited “Hustler University” with his brother Tristan. Tate had previously said that women “must take responsibility” for the sexual harassment and other inflammatory comments that led to her being kicked out of most other social media platforms. The brothers are currently awaiting trial in Romania on sex crime charges.
Hughes said fellow Gen Z men are becoming more conservative In response to various signals from society, such as headlines like “Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us” from leftist ideologies, to female-dominated mainstream publications like Vogue, it is precisely the kind of hyperbolic anti-male messages that push youth towards the opposite extreme.
“Once we move into the third wave of feminism… it’s really about constantly pointing the finger at toxic masculinity, making boys and men feel guilty and wrong for the ways that men in general are, I Guess you get a reaction to that, and that reaction expresses itself politically as conservatism,” Hughes said in the episode, which dropped Wednesday.
He said, “I am not the first person to observe that modern conservative politics has a more masculine character than liberal politics.”
The 28-year-old author and political commentator rose to national notoriety for her thoughtful critiques of identity politics and race essentialism as a student at Columbia – something she says her female peers see as a new “secular religion.” Considered as.
“At any time in the last 100 years of American history, women are more religious than men,” Hughes reported. “What happens now is that you have a new religion that has come into the secular void of the American and Western left, which is intersectional, and so in some senses, it’s not at all surprising that young women who historically have normally are more religious, they will adopt the new religion more quickly.”
His 2024 book “The End of Race Politics: The Argument for Colorblind America“argues for a return to Martin Luther King Jr.’s view that we will judge each other based on the content of their character, not the way they look – a thesis that Because of “The View” host Sonny Hostin accused Hughes of being a “charlatan” and a “pawn”.
Hughes said, “Critical race theory sounds exactly like academic, elitist bullies – that it’s okay to hate.” “We are rejecting the way Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement talked about race.”
Hughes, who is black and Puerto Rican, says he first became interested in the politics of race while studying at Columbia, where he says “white supremacy” was an omnipresent boogeyman.
He said, “I became curious about… why some of the other black kids (at Columbia) think there’s white supremacy here every day, when I’m walking around campus with my black skin on and I don’t see anybody. I don’t feel any kind of racism.”
“Why is there such a gap between what appears to be reality and what appears to be the dominant perspective?”
He was also particularly horrified when the school held an orientation program in which they segregated students by race. In “affinity groups”, Where they were potentially more able to discuss their racial experiences with people who looked like them.
While Hughes says that some of his professors at Columbia were excellent, he was surprised by how politically immature his peers were.
“Most of the students who were engaged with political issues, I found, were not completely naive, curious, completely open-minded to any point of view with which they disagreed. He claimed, “The pets of poorly educated teachers take the guise of the worst professors at Columbia and follow them down the most intellectually bankrupt paths of the world of ideas.”
As a supporter of Israel, Hughes was not surprised to see his own compound plunged into chaos after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel last year: “The match started on October 7, because you can’t fight before Israel can retaliate.” There were essentially people in favor of Hamas,” she said.
While Hughes says colleges have made some positive changes to address the stoppages and violent protests – like adopt institutional neutrality and teaching students about free speech during orientation — ultimately he doesn’t believe any changes will be permanent.
Hughes said, “I have little confidence that the hypocrisy exposed by October 7 will lead to any kind of permanent or stable situation.” “My fear is that the administrators in charge of those decisions are so unprincipled, like weather vanes in the wind.”
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