Andrew Tate Uncancelled?

Andrew Tate vs Piers Morgan is another sign that The Cathedral is collapsing.

Andrew Tate just DESTROYED and OWNED Piers Morgan. 

More accurately, Piers brought Tate onto his Uncensored show for a somewhat convivial, somewhat annoying interview, consisting largely of Morgan saying he agreed with Tate on some issues, while interrupting him repeatedly and trying to get him to apologise for being a bad and wrong misogynist.

What’s more interesting is that Tate might become the first person to be truly uncancelled. 

Massive on the internet, the dinosaur legacy media hadn’t even heard of him until said internet decided to cancel him. 

From being ‘the most Googled man on the planet’, in one fell swoop Tate lost his YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, NibNob (ok this one doesn’t exist), and more.

It was only then that the mainstream media decided to notice him. Initially in boomer hit pieces condemning his alleged misogyny, but now in a second wave of interest, in which the media have realised he is too good value to cancel entirely. 

Morgan’s well-publicised struggle for ratings is no doubt the sole reason for inviting the always compelling Tate on his show, a show which exists on the edge of the mainstream, as Talk TV is intended to be an alternative to the irredeemable BBC and Channel 4. But Morgan himself is undoubtedly a mainstream figure.

Furthermore, The Times have run a lengthy profile of Tate with posh establishment normie Hugo Rifkind. 

Usually when someone is cancelled they are kicked out of the mainstream, but often find succour amongst the other downtrodden and despised dissidents. Think of Winston Marshall, ousted from the massively popular Mumford and Sons for reading a book, but now able to write for The Spectator and interview Jordan Peterson. Or Toby Young, who lost five public positions, but then founded the Free Speech Union. 

The typical accusation is that because these people can still eat food most days, they haven’t been truly cancelled. Yet any objective observer will concede that they have been shoved further towards the fringes; losing money, status, and associates, while suffering significant stress in the process. 

If anyone was going to disrupt this paradigm, it makes sense that it is the money-flashing, vodka-swilling, cigar-smoking, women-baiting antihero Andrew Tate. 

Tate has somehow managed to use his cancellation to encroach further upon the mainstream, from Piers Morgan, to The Times, to, presumably, a 6pm BBC1 show called ‘Top G vs Dem Hoes’. 

His initial defiant move to Rumble, following his YouTube ban, was fine but flawed. For now, Rumble just doesn’t have anything like the reach of YouTube. Perhaps with Russel Brand now flocking there as well, it will pick up momentum. But so far no one has rekindled anything like their previous influence once exiled from the big boy platforms. 

That’s why Tate’s slightly incongruous foray into broadsheet territory could be a game changer.

The gulf between what ‘The Cathedral’—a term coined by Curtis Yarvin to describe the media and academic elite—want us to see, and what we actually want to see, is now so great that cancellation is becoming an increasingly absurd proposition.

Not in the sense that ‘cancel culture doesn’t exist’, as the woke left like to claim, even while they cancel you, relying on this tool of oppression like some gaslighting sexual predator molesting you whilst telling you what he is doing is normal.

But because while cancel culture clearly does exist, it is becoming less and less effective, and, much like the ageing Iranian regime, is on the verge of being laughed out of power by a growing population who are done with its authoritarian absurdities.

Humans want to watch, read, and listen to other humans who are interesting, open-minded, courageous, and cool.

Especially when set against an orthodoxy which, unlike past orthodoxies, whose strictures may have held some meliorative advantages, is arbitrary, amorphous and absolutely bereft of value.

When people actually watch Andrew Tate in long-form interviews, they see an intelligent, friendly, polite person with some good ideas, and some deliberately inflammatory rhetoric that veers between hilarious and obscene. 

But even his rougher edges pale next to an average day in an all-male WhatsApp group.

Thus to even humour the talking point ‘Should Tate be cancelled?’, as I have now had to do several times on TV, is to accept The Cathedral’s disingenuous premise. 

Our oppressors appeal to a morality that they themselves don't believe in (remember these are people that think it’s virtuous to mutilate confused children) in order to trap us in their paradigm. 

I have received many messages pointing out Tate isn’t a conservative, and that is no doubt true. With his idiosyncratic views on relationships, his history of running a pornographic webcam studio, and his online ‘Pimping Hoes Degree’ (PhD), he falls slightly short of certain purity tests. 

Nonetheless, in the storming of The Cathedral, he is one of our finest generals. And rarely have great generals been moral paragons.

If we are going to win this culture war sometime before nuclear war kicks off, we need warriors like Andrew Tate.