• Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Or maybe if there were less young boys listening to Andrew Tate there wouldn’t be that attitude towards men?

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      2 days ago

      Andrew Tate is so successful because there already existed the conditions to radicalise young people for quite some time.

      Cult leaders or radical leaders don’t have a platform if everyone is just fine. No-one in a healthy environment wakes up in the morning and decides “let’s start some hateful shit, because it’s just so much fun!”

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        8 hours ago

        True, but that doesn’t excuse that he promotes behaviors and thought patterns which reinforces reasons why people have certain attitudes towards men.

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        7 hours ago

        I actually do not alienate, but I do criticize when necessary.

        I have a close relative who took the red pill and is all in on the manosphere. Sometimes he sends me, and I’m not even kidding, 30 messages in a day about all the manosphere content he watches; but we still hang out and talk. I don’t comment on everything he sends me if it is something we have already debated over. If it is something different or something I find to be egregious, I do call him out on it.

        To be fair, some days are harder than others to hear his bullshit, and I take a break and mute his messages for a while. I feel overall I still value him as a person and it is important to interact with him. However, I can also empathize with those that want nothing to do with someone who holds those opinions.