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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/24/adolescence-and-the-moral-panic-about-working-class-boys/
Andrew Tate is a moral menace, there’s no doubt. But there are legions of moral menaces that remain unexplored by our cultural classes. There’s an online culture that entices middle-class gay kids on to a conveyor belt of chemical castration. It calls itself ‘trans rights’. There’s a virtual underbelly of religious hysteria that encouraged literally hundreds of young British Muslims to trek 3,000 miles to join a cult that crucified Christians and defenestrated homosexuals. Where’s that drama, Netflix? We all know that far more male violence and oppression flows from the online subculture of angry Islamism than has ever been authored by Tate. But if you made a drama about it, you’d be cancelled quicker than you could say ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The moral panic about Tate is a moral panic about working-class boys. As Ally Ross of the Sun said of Adolescence, it seems there’s no role in modern drama for working-class boys ‘beyond thug or bully’. Tony Blair, then leader of the opposition, exploited the murder of James Bulger to push a new authoritarianism. Now, like history repeated as farce, his heir, Keir Starmer, is exploiting the fictional murder of a kid to push his petty tyranny of social-media clampdowns. At last, we might get the war on ‘social media-fuelled violence [against] women’ that we need, says an overexcited Guardian in the wake of Adolescence. I don’t need to tell you that they’re not referring to the misogyny of bourgeois trans activists or radical Islamists. Nope, only working-class young’uns like Jamie. Who’s made up.
Andrew Tate is a moral menace, there’s no doubt. But there are legions of moral menaces that remain unexplored by our cultural classes. There’s an online culture that entices middle-class gay kids on to a conveyor belt of chemical castration. It calls itself ‘trans rights’. There’s a virtual underbelly of religious hysteria that encouraged literally hundreds of young British Muslims to trek 3,000 miles to join a cult that crucified Christians and defenestrated homosexuals. Where’s that drama, Netflix? We all know that far more male violence and oppression flows from the online subculture of angry Islamism than has ever been authored by Tate. But if you made a drama about it, you’d be cancelled quicker than you could say ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The moral panic about Tate is a moral panic about working-class boys. As Ally Ross of the Sun said of Adolescence, it seems there’s no role in modern drama for working-class boys ‘beyond thug or bully’. Tony Blair, then leader of the opposition, exploited the murder of James Bulger to push a new authoritarianism. Now, like history repeated as farce, his heir, Keir Starmer, is exploiting the fictional murder of a kid to push his petty tyranny of social-media clampdowns. At last, we might get the war on ‘social media-fuelled violence [against] women’ that we need, says an overexcited Guardian in the wake of Adolescence. I don’t need to tell you that they’re not referring to the misogyny of bourgeois trans activists or radical Islamists. Nope, only working-class young’uns like Jamie. Who’s made up.