It seems as though everyone is watching Adolescence this week. The four-part Netflix series tells the story of a 13 year-old white boy who murders a female classmate after having been radicalised by the ‘manosphere’. It’s beautifully shot and wonderfully acted. My mother has been texting me excitedly as she watches each episode. The star, Stephen Graham and writer Jack Thorne toured TV studios, calling for the show to be aired in schools and parliament, making it clear that they hope it “causes discussion and makes change“. Even the Prime Minister has got in on the act, saying that his family have been watching and that “the violence carried out by young men, influenced by what they see online, is a real problem”. Meanwhile the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy made it clear that the Government is
“pressing ahead with the Online Harms Act to make sure that we keep people safe online”.
As with ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office Horizon scandal, it seems that a TV drama may again be changing Government policy. Except this time it’s a drama which is apparently either not based on any particular case, or informed by the murder of 15 year-old Elianne Andam by 17 year-old Hassan Sentamu. Unlike in Adolescence, Sentamu’s killing of Ellianne Andam followed a history of attacking girls, making repeated threats of violence and carrying knives, while his social media usage has not been linked to his crime. The reality is that there are usually escalating warning signs before boys and young men commit these kinds of murders – violent fantasies, violent behaviours and carrying knives are all common.
Many people online have also questioned the choice to make the killer a white boy, but this appears to be consistent with much official training provided by the state.
I watched a leaked Prevent training video which was part of Hampshire County Council’s safeguarding training until last month. It is a crude animation, telling the tale of ‘Mr J’, a 17 year-old boy who likes to spend time at his local nature reserve. It tells us that “nature reserve staff become concerned” when they discover leaflets Mr J has distributed which “contain anti-immigration views and argue that British tradition and identity is under threat from multiculturalism and that Islam is fundamentally opposed to British values”. Their concerns are further raised when they question Mr J, but find him to be “defensive and uncooperative”. The staff refer him to Prevent, who progress Mr J to the next step, “Channel”, which means a counter-terrorism police officer visits his home along with a social worker.
Contrast this scenario with that of Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, was never referred to Channel, despite having been expelled from school for bringing a knife in and for attacking another pupil.
A Hampshire County Council spokesperson said: “The video in question is no longer in use. The video referred to was one in a series previously used, with a range of case studies featuring hypothetical scenarios staff may have encountered. Since February Hampshire County Council uses training developed by the Home Office.”
But the council didn’t invent this narrative itself. I completed the first module of the Government’s official Prevent training, which describes “cultural nationalism” as an “extreme Right-wing terrorist” ideology. It specifically identifies the belief that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups” as a “narrative” of concern.
‘Kirsty’, a source within Hampshire County Council, said this video is typical of Prevent training. “They train us to look for factors that indicate radicalisation, but will only show us examples of young white men.” She believes that the focus of the training is misleading, with a great deal of attention give to examples of “incel lingo” such as “looksmaxxing”, imagery like Pepe the Frog being described as “online Right”, and very outdated Irish nationalist and animal liberation movements. Kirsty believes that “most people who attend the training would not think that these issues apply to young brown or black boys, or even girls” because “they just focus on Right wing ideology – there’s no branching out to Islamic extremism or eco terrorism”. She thinks this is because Right wing ideology is a “safe example for them to use because it’s politically correct”. All of this is happening against a background where Islamist terrorism comprises 75% of MI5’s caseload but only 11% of Prevent referrals are related to Islamist terrorism.
Professor Ian Acheson, a counter-terrorism expert says:
Art is not life, particularly when it comes to combating violent extremism. We know that all the data show the pre-eminent terrorist threat to national security in this country is from Islamist ideology. But this is never emphasised in fictional representations of the threat. The reason why is obvious and also dangerous. It’s far less trouble to exemplify an extreme Right-wing risk that exists mainly in the heads of progressive professionals. While this can make for compelling viewing or great educational tools, it also adds to the feeling that simple cowardice is in the director’s chair.
Yet again the arms of the state seem focused on that which is easy to ‘confront’, rather than that which poses the greatest risk to its citizens. As with the murder of Sir David Amess by an Islamist, so now a drama is being used as an excuse to further restrict online speech.
David Shipley has sold fork lift trucks, worked in corporate finance, produced a film and served a prison sentence for committing fraud. He now campaigns for prison reform and works as a prison inspector. You can find his website here.
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At least it fits in with the strategy, ethnics play white roles and whites play ethnic roles. Simple if you live in the new dystopian world.
anti White racism. All part of the program.
For, “Pressing ahead with the Online Harms Act to make sure that we keep people safe online,”
Read, “Make sure we close down cycle-touring, local residents’ and hamster-forum websites.”
On X, concise review of “‘Adolesence’ – Televisual poison” from comedian Andrew Armstrong:
https://x.com/andrewlawrence/status/1902681576053321759
Get real. We all know choir boy looking 14 yr olds with married, employed parents and a well kept family home are the FIRST to go on a stabbing spree after dodgy Whatsapp message..
I wouldn’t watch this kack on principle. Talk about twisting the truth and avoiding the butt-naked Emperor. These people are delusional denialists and if folk can’t see through this patently obvious BS then there’s no helping them. Sadiq the Khant will be loving this, won’t he, because warping/denying reality is what he does best. Good points made by Alex here, and like someone mentions in the comments: just visit Notting Hill carnival to see who’s stabbing who;
”Vilifying white working class boys is a national disgrace. A stain.
This is personal. I had to sleep on a mattress on a floor because my mum couldn’t afford a bed frame, she had to put food back on the shelves and scrape by on a pittance.
I dragged myself out of poverty with ZERO help from any “DEI” crusaders or the govt.
For every one of me, there’s 100’s more forgotten white working class boys who are now also being GASLIT, told they’re a misogynistic terror threat. What utter BS.
How sinister these people are to now “worry” about the white working class boys they’ve spent DECADES neglecting, demonising and gaslighting.
They created this crisis, not those poor kids, but nobody is interested in the truth because, simply, they are white and working class.”
https://x.com/alexharmstrong/status/1902836398278980056
Apportion the blame where it’s rightly due. Where’s the real threat coming from? The ‘usual suspects’;
”A follower has sent me this story, it never stops.
“This piece of work has allegedly been hanging around schools in Shoreham by Sea and Worthing. He is 22. I don’t know his name.
“He was arrested this morning outside a school in Buckingham Road Shoreham for common assault on a child, it’s a Primary School and possession of cannabis.
“He has previously been arrested at a kiddies park in Worthing where he was spitting on kids rides in the play area and intimidating kids & parents.
“He has not been charged and is on police bail (which isn’t worth a toss). FB groups are literally alive with criticism of Sussex Police inaction. This man is potentially dangerous.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1903087953384980494
I share your rage Mogs
1000%
I wouldn’t call this cowardice. This is a useful story because it aligns with the political goals of all kinds of people. The Southport story, though real, is completely useless to them because it’s diametrically opposed. Even man killing women (or boy killing girls) can be a sign of intersectional victimhood: The guy was black, this means a traumatized victim of whatnot and hence, him going on a killing spree just shows once again that systemic racism kills — universal happiness on the woke side.
However, a white boy or man suffering from depression, sexual frustration and general frustration with the lack of perspective and dreariness of his live can never be victim. He’s always going to be an evil femicidal misogynistic extreme right-wing terrorist aka perfectly symbolize everything these people hate because they believe it could – even if only theoretically – checkmate their quest for total power. After all, white men have – historically – been quite successful and they could perhaps do it again if they had any wiggle room
So Government policy is based on made up scenarios totally at odds with reality? A story about a black killer with no internet activity linked to the bogey men like Tate, is turned into evil whitey child from the midlands?
Who’a’thunk it, eh?
It is a terrible thing that they have done to western men and especially white western boys. If I was a lad thoughts about my future would be concerned with depression, suicide, addiction, or emigration. Go somewhere that values you lad. Here you are lower than vermin and the scapegoat for every social evil manufacured by our overlords.
Quite right.
Perhaps a film about 100000 white underage girls being systematically raped by paki taxi drivers while police and social workers look the other way would me more realistic?
Jus’ sayin’
Sick making.
How many white English lads will read about this or even watch it and feel themselves even more excluded from their birthright
Makes me unbelievably angry.
AGAIN.
Lets not forget this one also. The Guardian is of course promoting this advert as virtuous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaY2Kb_PKI
Gillette’s ‘We believe: the best men can be’ razors commercial takes on toxic masculinity
We talk about these things as if there has been a sudden and recent attack. It has been going on for decades but we were either isoleted from oit or aneasthetised to it. These tendencies have existed in the ruling class since the late nineteenth century. The idea of the family as a machine of oppression etc. But bear in mind that the upper class and upper middle class families who espoused these views kept their own familes strong whilst urging the masses to relinquish any sense of family or race or community or identity.
If you are a young person longing for the release of the spirit then I would recommend listening to Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. It is all encoded there if you have the ears to hear it.
Madonna asked Elisabeth fraser for collabroatio and she declined. An unworldly energy and complete openness to the realm of the spirit. That’s what you need in our age of closing doors.
It tells us that “nature reserve staff become concerned” when they discover leaflets Mr J has distributed which “contain anti-immigration views and argue that British tradition and identity is under threat from multiculturalism and that Islam is fundamentally opposed to British values”.
This is interesting. So if someone were to advocate the mass immigration of white people to, say, Nigeria, and the Nigerians protested about it, claiming that mass immigration threatened Nigerian values, would the Nigerians be regarded as “far-right terrorists” by our anti-white Establishment? Of course not – which indicates a double-standard. However, the useful thing about the Establishment’s double-standard is that it shows what the hidden intention really is – in this case, obviously, it’s the Establishment’s promotion of The Great Replacement.
It’s getting increasingly hard not to arrive at that conclusion.
in this case, obviously, it’s the Establishment’s promotion of The Great Replacement.
There’s no need for a Great Replacement. Western culture has degenerated to the point where children are – at best – considered an unnecessary luxury item many people just cannot afford. And there are lots of people moving here who – just like all other animals – reproduce as somewhat intended side effect of them having sex. The eventual outcome is obvious and inevitable.
Just get him out. I know people who moved abroad and were able to buy their house outright within 3-6 years. If you can’t do that then you are living under serfdom. It doesn’t have to be this way. There are places that talented young Englishmen can go. Please don’t consign them to this garbage dump.
It stinks like a bag of horse dick you just have to leave even if it means saying goodbye to your family forever.
Cultural appropriation I’d say.
Cultural appropriation anyone?
I’m watching the series and it’s very well acted. But it’s also very obvious what the “messages” you’re supposed to take away are, although not quite so explicit as a BBC production would have been.
The episode with the psychologist where the culprit claims that he is ugly the least believable: they couldn’t have found a sweeter, better-looking and obviously middle-class boy to play the violent working class thug if they’d tried.
I’m so looking forward to the second series which will be about a brown-skinned, violent second-generation Muslim lad who participates in the “honour” killing of his sister. The white Detective Inspector will be male, and a church-going paragon of virtue.
Can’t wait.