Popular Dumb Red Pill Contrarians
Why are the most popular people representing various fringe ideas braindead?
Criminal sex trafficker Andrew Tate likes to express controversial views. His every Tweet gets more attention than anything I’ve ever written, and probably than anything I will ever write. But what annoys me the most is that he’s dumb!
There, I said it. His problem, more than being evil, is that he’s just disastrously terrible at thinking to a quite extreme degree.
Norm MacDonald (rest in peace) has a joke about Bill Cosby along the following lines. “People say the worst thing about the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy. But I disagree. I think it was the raping!” Perhaps my comments are reminiscent of those. But still, I think if he was 10% smarter, that would improve the world more than if he was 10% less evil.
Watch this clip, for instance. In it, Tate tries desperately to defend an earlier statement that a woman is her husband’s property. The problem is that he seems to have some weird macho unwillingness to admit a previous statement he made was false, but clearly disagrees with his previous statement, so he flounders embarrassingly for five minutes. Each time he’s asked whether he thinks a woman is her husband’s property, he’ll say something else that he thinks like “if a woman marries a man and she decides to take his last name they have different roles and responsibilities in that marriage,” and not answer the question. It’s just shameful! And yet this guy has taken off for his willingness to speak contrarian, supposedly hard-to-hear truths.
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