Polarizing social media personality Andrew Tate has been receiving a lot of "racial insults" with regards to his opinions on the UK riots that have been happening in the past week.
The violence, which was reportedly incited by anti-immigrant and Islamophobic groups (Associated Press), had Tate openly speaking his mind, being that he is an immigrant and Muslim himself. Because of this, 'Cobra' Tate received quite a lot of backlash for his opinions - something we can assume he's been quite used to by now.
Still, the influencer of African-American and British descent admits that he's not used to receiving racism and racial attacks from his home country of Britain.
Tate tweeted:
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"This is the first time in my life Im getting serious racist insults for being brown from white people in the UK. Not a good look."
Tate followed up by reposting the Tweet with another message, saying:
"The difference between me and everyone else is that even tho I am the exact person these white mobs would attack. A brown Muslim. I believe dialogue and letting them feel heard is the answer. Conversation is key. Silencing voices only makes the problem worse.."
You can read more details on the riots as reported by the Associated Press here.
Andrew Tate's initial thoughts on recent UK riots: "It's rich versus poor"
Once the news of the violence and misinformation broke out, Andrew Tate posted a long video on X regarding his thoughts on the matter. In so many words Tate assessed that neither side of the matter would win as the violence would only allow the powers-that-be to create laws that would restrict people's freedom even more.
Tate said:
"Those laws will be abused. Because laws are always abused by the governments. They're gonna say it's for your safety but eventually the laws will be abused to prevent you from ever having a point of view on anything ever again, ever expressing your opinion on anything ever again, and it's not only the white people who are [going to be] suppressed. It's gonna be the other side that's suppressed also. We're all going to end up in the same mush."
The outspoken influencer added:
"You know, I've traveled the world enough to see, guys, I promise you: it's rich versus poor. It's not poor black versus poor white. It's not poor brown versus poor white. It's rich versus poor. There are people in the world who have no interest at all in the sanctity and safety of society. They're interested only in protecting their money and their profits. And they're gonna allow the streets to run with blood to do that... I don't think we're gonna convince anybody of that in time to stop this violence but it's the truth of the situation."
Watch Andrew Tate's full video statement here: