A couple of months before he was arrested, Tate converted to Islam. This was a shock to some of his most ardent supporters in the west… But the move was perhaps not as surprising as it first might have seemed. By converting to Islam, facilitated by well-known conservative Muslim influencers Mohammed Hijab and Ali Dawah, Tate had opened up the online Red Pill movement to non-white and non-western people, giving them space in a movement that once saw Muslims, along with feminists, as their ideological enemies.
…“His appeal is just a very simple mix of misogyny and aspiration… It’s very seductive to tell young men in the global south that hating women and mistreating them and, in Tate’s case, literally allegedly trafficking them, is the secret to a successful life. It’s classic fascism, but because it’s cloaked into a cartoonish macho man aesthetic and not directly linked to any particular politics, we don’t treat it as such.”
A red s̶u̶n̶ pill rises in the east
Ben Harris-Roxas
@ben_hr