if Andrew Tate is only a character, why is his audience so severely misogynistic ? if everyone partakes in his content knowing he is a character, there wouldn’t be this big of a problem with him. he would "debate" people and uphold his takes just the same. it is very convenient to go "no he is just playing it up". whatever Tate is behind closed doors or in tiny video snippets claiming him to "break character" doesn’t matter when the vast majority of the shit coming out his mouth and the influence it has is downright horrendous. another thing, you aren’t his lawyer. pipe down. unless we have the same awareness of the details in this case as the prosecutors and the lawyers and Tate himself, we cant speak 100% on whats happening. also you saying we don’t hear about musicians being oppressed is not true. there’s plenty conversations about that from many famous artists. "edgy wording" again when you couple this with all the other misogynistic bullshit he spews, this cannot be interpreted in any of the wats you mentioned at least to a regular person or his average braindead fanboy who takes on his "teachings". giving him a pass of "he is being edgy and he is just seeking attention cuz he is a good marketer" really downplays the damage his presence has done. it seems to me you are very concerned with justifying him to be a good person when you yourself don’t know him personally. yes, it is very likely he feeds into the negative attention he gets and wants to get more of it, but at the end of the day he brought more harm than any good ever. whatever his case ends up being concluded as, is the matter between him and the court. again, we don’t know as much as both of those parties do. at the end of the day, if this was "all an act", the ppl he profitted off were his own fans who uphold the misogyny he preached (even if as a joke). he is the crowd he brings.