Andrew Tate Didn’t Cause Bondi

Pop quiz: who murdered 15 Jewish Australians at Bondi last December? Was it a) an Andrew Tate fan? Or was it b) Muslims?

Next question: which group has been responsible for over 90 per cent of terror attacks or planned terror attacks in Australia over the past 25 years? Hint: it’s the same group responsible for more than 70 per cent of terror attacks globally. Also the same group responsible for Australia’s first ever fatal terror attack, way back in 1915.

I don’t think you need any more hints. In fact, you almost certainly knew from the first question.

Congratulations: you’re smarter than a legacy media journalist, a screeching feminist or a bed-wetting lefty.

In the past year alone, more than a dozen teenage boys across the country have been charged with terrorism offences in a wave that has alarmed security agencies and exposed the disturbing ease with which extremist content finds its way on to the screens of some of the nation’s most vulnerable children.

Boys of any particular descriptions or demographics?

Currently in year 12 and sitting his VCE, Essendon local Larz Kaluri, 17, speaks to content he has witnessed playing out on his own feeds […]

“You see teenage boys from 14 to 17 with machetes at Flinders Street Station.”

Again, any particular demographics to these ‘teenage boys’? Anything? Does anything stand out?

Larz’s mother, motivational speaker and author Sacha Kaluri, 51, has spent her career speaking to and about teenagers.

Hands up who thinks the correct verb modifier is at?

Ms Kaluri has noted occasions when her youngest son regurgitated unsavoury online content relating to controversial influencer Andrew Tate – a key figure in the online “manosphere” who has been charged with child sex trafficking and rape.

Somehow I’m guessing that Naveed Akram wasn’t binge-watching Andrew Tate videos while he and his dear old dad were tooling up to murder Jews.

The denial doesn’t let up.

Counsellor and father of two older teens Kosta Constantinou, 50, is increasingly concerned by what he hears from some students who confide in him […]

“When I go to a religious school ... they’re talking to me about religious things that make them feel like they can override some of the laws here in Australia,” he says, acknowledging how the influence of their peers and environment can also shape their views, in addition to online habits.

“Religiously they’ve been told they can do that ... and we see that with antisemitism and other sorts of discrimination.”

Hmm. Which religious schools? Funny how they don’t elaborate.

But if they’re really so worried about Andrew Tate – who isn’t, to be sure, the most savoury role model anyone can have – maybe they should start looking in a mirror to see why so many boys are (allegedly) turning to his content.

Schools, politicians, psychologists, high-profile feminists and media all tell young men that they are ‘toxic’, ‘rapists’ and ‘misogynists’. Lefty superstar Clementine Ford, whose revolting books are bought by the truckload by almost entirely female school librarians and who is regularly showered with taxpayers’ money, openly cackles that Covid didn’t kill men ‘fast enough’. Clammy was also neck-deep in disseminating the antisemitic ‘Jew List’, doxxing Jewish Australian creatives.

The government runs massive ad campaigns depicting all boys as incipient abusers. The media gush endlessly about a Netflix show that depicts a completely lying narrative about white boys as ‘gritty realism’, and politicians demand to force all boys to watch it.

When boys are failing in school and at work, all the chattering elite will talk about, and all the resources go to, ‘boosting girls’ participation rates’. Even men’s health charities are taken over by all-female boards, while women demand to be let into every male space, from clubs to Men’s (not any more) sheds.

On the other hand, what does the ‘manosphere’, which the same people clutch their pearls about, tell boys? That they are worthy, they are strong and that their masculinity is not a ‘mental illness’. That they should be proud to be men.

Wonder who the boys are going to listen to?