Any teacher here can please tell me how the kids who got roped in by Tate are doing now? Has there anyone fallen off the wagon? Or do they just stop talking about him while taking what he has taught them to be common sense? And is there any new figure trying to turn himself into the next person to sit on the empty seat?

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I was told by teachers who teach 11-12 years old that the boys do talk about him positively. Apparently he's a little bit of an counter cultural hero. Although this was before his arrest.

    12 year old boys do have really cringe opinions that they grow out of quickly, though.

    Edit: I literally forgot that I have first hand experience.

    In the years I teach, a handful of chuddy 18 boys with petit bourgeois dads idolise him a bit. I've heard them talk positively about him before. I haven't heard his name mentioned since his arrest, though. Those boys are literally the worst people in their year group, though.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    @Spock has first hand account if she checks hexbear later but i think i remember her telling me they've adapted somehow

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Are we actually in a post-Taint era yet? :doomer:

  • American_Badass [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    My angelic wife teaches high school, and they only mentioned him as sort of a meme. I don't think she knew of anyone that really took him seriously, but there could have been some that just didn't mention it. My theory on this is that in high school people actually get laid and date women, so they probably learn that being a horrific misogynist doesn't work with women. I'd say his fan base generally skewed younger than high school, which is horrifying.

    My assumption is that there are countless people trying to do the same thing. Every right-wing freak seems to try to capitalize on capitalist isolation and create a fan base of disaffected incels. I doubt that goes away any time soon.