One of the weirder tendencies of our liberal political-media class is a certain schizophrenia as to the strength of their many enemies, opposing forces and general bugbears. The forces of extremism, populism, authoritarianism – or anything else the BBC might dislike on a given day – are in the bien-pensant mind always simultaneously weak, pathetic, fit only for scorn and derision, and terrifying, dangerous and close to total victory. Thus, as German media have it, the AfD is ever on the cusp of ushering in a fourth Reich – while also being a bunch of laughable cranks and buffoons. Likewise, ever since the start of the Ukraine war we’ve been assured repeatedly that Putin’s army is under-resourced, decrepit and on the verge of collapse – by the same people who in the next breath will insist the Russian tyrant is inches from conquering all of Europe. The US corporate media mock Donald Trump as venal and petty, with small hands and funny hair – while also insisting that he’s literally Hitler. Supposedly, climate sceptics are little more than a lunatic fringe… which is why it’s necessary to vigorously suppress them across all media so their outlandish views can’t sway the masses. You get the picture.
I was put in mind of this chattering-class doublethink when I got round this week to watching Adolescence, a new four-part Netflix drama about a teenage boy who kills his female classmate after being ‘radicalised online’ by the ‘Manosphere’. Hitting all the right notes about social media, misogyny and dangerous young boys, Adolescence has already met with glowing praise from the great and the good, with its writers now being invited to Parliament to lobby for even more censorship of social media. There’s something quite ghoulish about a show so transparently designed to flatter political class prejudices – its production company is part-funded by the British Government – being treated as if it reflects a social reality and isn’t touting a political agenda. The PM has even referred to it as a “documentary” and said it should be shown in schools.
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‘Adolescence’- Televisual poison
It might have been more believable if he’d stabbed her with a compass in his maths class because he found out it was her that put a drawing pin on his chair before he sat on it. But then they couldn’t turn that into some ‘white boys are the source of all evil’ narrative and turn it into a ‘successful’ Netflix series. I find the whole thing insulting to our intelligence, frankly. They treat the public like they’re thick.
Thank you Laurie, for making such sacrifices in the line of duty and watching this fictional drivel, a blatant attempt at misdirection due to pushing a government agenda and avoiding the reality on the ground, so that we don’t have to. Respect. I mean, are we also really expected to believe that a 13yr old kid can even be classed as a misogynist in the first place? Aren’t kids of this age still spending their time on Snap Chat and playing Roblox as opposed to hanging out on the ‘manosphere’? And there’s no such thing as ‘toxic masculinity’, only toxic people. Unbelievable cobblers. This has probably already been shared but serves as a reminder;
”Adolescence a show “based on a true story” depicts a white boy influenced by social media to kill a teenage girl.
The actual story is Elianne who was an innocent aspiring human rights lawyer was killed by a man who had a history of attacking girls and carrying knives.
They swapped the race of the actual killer from a black man to a white boy and the story has it he was radicalized online.
Changing the topic from knife crime to toxic masculinity is so evil.”
https://x.com/NewCultureForum/status/1902735128335708187
Most murders are crimes of passion, done on the spur of the moment with a lifetime of regret.
Shame they cannot do a gritty drama about a planned and well co-ordinated grooming gang that enlarges its operation by charging customers both in person, and online and uses the money to pay off the ‘officials’ who are paid to protect the young girls.
One thing that makes modern television and drama so unbearable is that it is infused with ideology. Every single aspect of life is viewed through the lens of racism, sexism, misogyny, etc.
The characters are clichéd, the preaching is constant, the “message” dominates the story line.
The whole thing is also cowardly because they only ever touch the safe, approved subjects that will guarantee applause from the “right” people. Would any of these brave, award-winning directions have the courage to make a film about a young Muslim boy becoming radicalized, joining jihad against the west and becoming a suicide bomber? We all know the answer to that.
I don’t spend a single moment watching traditional TV.
It’s like putting bad food into your body.
I couldn’t get far into it. The opening scenes are excellent but the supporting cast is dreadful: I felt the sands of time draining as I waited for something meaningful to happen.
I’m looking forward to the next series, which will be about a brown-skinned, second-generation Muslim lad who gets badly influenced by his local extremist Imam and who participates in an “honour killing” of his sister, along with his violent, controlling father.
The Detective Inspector will be a white male and will be a paragon of virtue, attending church regularly and, in his spare time, running the local under 18 cricket team.
I can’t wait ….. but I guess it’ll be a long one.
Obviously that’s the version they should make in Pakistan, as we are all equal and all cultures are the same.
According to the BBC.
Mmm I think you’re right, might be a longish wait.
The whole of society is being deliberately demoralised.
Get real
FALSE! The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, Ethnic Europeans = White People, are the target.
It is YOU who need to “get real”.
There is a campaign of demoralisation against all white people.
The government has no business funding TV programs with money they have stolen from us – but they do, thanks to socialism, which is now the generally accepted political norm, even among some DS readers it seems.
And as we know, it’s happening in many other countries. To state the obvious, what they’re doing with this show is making a very poor and transparent attempt at diverting our attention away from the fact ‘Project Multiculturalism’ is an epic failure and this myopic focus and obsession with ‘diversity’ has proven it’s the polar opposite of ‘our strength’. Ergo, white people must continue to be blamed, held to different standards and castigated within society.
It’s why you’ll never see Khant acknowledge the terrible London crime rate and who is over-represented in the stats. Denial of reality is imperative in maintaining the facade, so he never strays from his soundbites in the same way he never accepts contradictory facts. ‘The Great Replacement Show’ must go on at all costs, the same as every other agenda being pushed relentlessly by ‘TPTB’. You may remember this tragedy, motivated by pure racism and carried out by the usual suspects, in France;
”The mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, Marie-Hélène Thoraval, has strongly criticized a newly published book on the Crépol attack, accusing its authors of distorting the truth and downplaying the racial and social tensions at the heart of the tragedy.
The book, written by investigative journalists Jean-Michel Décugis, Pauline Guéna, and Marc Leplongeon, seeks to reframe the Nov. 18, 2023, attack in Crépol as a politically exploited “news item” rather than a racially-motivated crime.
The attack, which resulted in the death of a White teenager named Thomas and serious injuries to three others, was carried out by a group of Black youths outside a village dance. Witnesses reported that one of the attackers declared, “We are here to stab White people.” However, the book claims the incident was “seized upon” by “fascists” and questions the racial undertones that many — including the victims’ families — believe were central to the crime.
Speaking to Valeurs Actuelles, Mayor Thoraval accused the authors of rewriting history and ignoring the stark reality of the social divide in France.
“Forty years ago, it was a working-class neighborhood. Today, it has become a community enclave, welcoming an uninterrupted flow of immigration. In these neighborhoods, the rules and customs in place are no longer those of the Republic. Lawless zones are being established, where the law of religion and drug trafficking prevails.”
One of the controversies reignited by the book is the absence of a police report mentioning anti-White racism as a possible motive for the attack. The mayor recalled a meeting between then-Minister Olivier Véran and the victims’ families, during which they unanimously testified that the attackers had shouted openly racist and anti-French insults.
“Denying the existence of anti-White racism is absurd. Racism cannot only go one way.”
https://rmx.news/article/local-french-mayor-slams-new-book-distorting-reality-of-anti-white-crepol-murder/
“And as we know, it’s happening in many other countries.”
Indeed – though it only seems to be countries where the majority are White European – northern, central, western and southern Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. A special White capacity for self-hate.
I know. Make it make sense. It goes against all natural survival and self-preservation instincts. This is St Patrick’s Day nowadays. And once they’re here they’re not going back, of course. Some change is obviously inevitable but the society we grew up in is unrecognizable in comparison to today in many places;
”This year’s St Patrick’s Day parades were some of the least Irish I have ever seen.
The government is wondering why tourism revenue is down 28%.
Simple.
Tourists don’t come to Ireland to see Africans in military uniform marching through the streets.”
https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1903203864247210276
“Make it make sense.”
I don’t think it ever will, to me. I am not especially patriotic, got nothing in particular against foreign people, pretty liberal and moderate by nature – but I don’t want this country to be lost. Actually this view is shared by lots of non-English people I know who live here – they came because it’s England and they want it to remain like that!
I think you are probably right, and I sincerely believe that many people moving to England are genuinely fond of the place and our culture and are as appalled as we are at what is being done to us, and are certainly more patriotic than our loathsome political/media/academic establishment who as Orwell correctly noted, hate us.
As I’ve written here a couple of times in the past already: This is basically a case of the people who invented denazification getting their share of it as this has been going on Germany for much longer than anywhere else.
Human history is not one of heroes and villains because each side of a conflict invariably believes it’s them who are the heroes and that the others are the villains with reality being more something in between and casting it as such for political reasons and keeping that up for 80 odd years was simply a mistake. British history doesn’t really fare much better than German history when measured against this imaginary yardstick and people with an interest in dominating Britain were bound to notice this sooner or later. Hence, you’ll get the exact same story about the original sin of having chosen one’s parents wrongly and the necessity of a lifetime of atonement for that also rammed down your throats. That’s not a unique capacity for self-hate among so-called white people but just the habitual, well tried and test schtick of those who seek to lord over them for their own benefit.
Other people are unaffected by this because they were – at most – better spear carriers in the great wars of the early 20th century. The “world war!!1” story simply isn’t theirs.
I know plenty of people who seem to suffer from “white guilt”.
As they keep being told that they must not have white pride because they’re so ghastly, what else is there for them to pick up?
If women emasculate and demean the men in their biological and ethnic group then the men from a different biological and ethnic group will move in and take the women, if they sense any weakness in the men. This is not ideological or an imagining, it is how nature works. In the natural world, which includes humans, when this happens it is usually violent and total. The best that can happen are the original males are driven off and out of the group.
And what of the men who “emasculate and demean the men in their biological and ethnic group”, through active discrimination against men that look just like them? Which we know is the reality and examples abound. This DEI nonsense didn’t just crop up under the recent Starmer government, for instance. And if Trump has the ability to abolish it, why not any of the many previous male-led UK governments?
“…weak men create hard times.”
True.
In a programme supposedy about the dangers of grooming through the consumption of dangerous media content, the people who are actually being groomed are the passive sheep-like consumers of this insidious drivel.
Didn’t we used to pride ourselves on our sense of irony?
“Adolescence” may have been well acted but according to some it is a depressing preachy morality play and misery porn. The woke liberal establishment loved it. It was peddling a political agenda blaming toxic male influencers on the internet for the murder so the righteous liberals can bring in draconian censorship of the internet.
Comedian Andrew Lawrence https://x.com/andrewlawrence/status/1902681576053321759
Ross Clark in the Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/netflixs-adolescence-is-far-from-perfect/
That the writers of this anti-white anti-male rubbish have been invited to talk about it by the political and media establishment, as if they have anything meaningful to contribute, shows once again, how morally and intellectually bankrupt they are.
Having read the “info” summary of this dross, I decided not to bother watching it – too predictable. It seems I was right.
This is a BFI funded film ie by the Govt so don’t tell me the government’s nudge and propaganda units aren’t behind it. Cue a social media crackdown on the yoof with plans for digital ID to “protect” them fron online harms.
Look into the Tavistock Institute’s social engineering methods over he past 100 years to see how society is shaped according to elite interests. Why the attack on white boys, masculinity, the transgender ideology, euthanasia, the normalisation of what would be seen as shocking even 20 years ago, the destruction of flirting for online swiping, the commodification of s ex exemplified by Bonnie Blue. Eliminate male amd female as essential categories, destroy masculinity, undermine monogamy, celebrate single females, impoverish families with high taxes and childcare, and lower the birthrate with fertility lowering vaccines. Evil.
Job done. Destroy the family and you control society. Read Brave New World.
Does this even need to be asked? It is also not only against white ethnicity males but also females, albeit that males have it worse. It was rife at both of my children’s ‘highly rated’ state schools in London and endemic to many of the firms I have had inside experience of in London. The usual theme was to treat minority groups with kids’ gloves but, when it came to the majority, it was open season. The same story with gaining internships. Tick a box or two and you’re in. Recruiting quotas for minority groups are also common and managers are ince provided to do this on order to be promoted. This social disease is now endemic to British society and, especially, the London bubble. For our establishment to push it as some form of enlightened egalitarianism is a massive misrepresentation. It is a concerted set of societal forces that are, essentially, incentivised to marginalise the majority via any means possible.
Your point about schools reminded me of this, and I’m sure this is commonplace nowadays. If the buck stops with the Head Mistress then shame on her. Not sure if she’s just another woketard or if she capitulated under pressure from ‘you know who’, as I’ve no idea how ‘diverse’ this particular school/area is. Sad state of affairs in this letter full of guff, nevertheless;
”Norwood School in Eastleigh, Hants sent a letter to parents. Head Stephanie Mander says the Easter Bonnet Parade & the Easter Service are cancelled. It’s been done in the “spirit of inclusivity & respect for diverse religious beliefs.”
It will be replaced by in June “Refugee Week”as they an aim to be an “accredited school of sanctuary.”
A follower sent me this & is from a family member.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1903370301347377374
Did woman psychiatrist not ask Jamie how important it was for his online male heroes to look like himself?
An opportunity, if this were real life, for any Jamie to say, “Christ, no, no one looks like me; which is a mercy if you think about it.” Before adding, just to confirm the supposed mansplaining tendency, “Didn’t you know, Madam Shrink, that every person is unique; something that can be proven genetically. So no one looks like you either.”
But the premise in this pretentious drama is nothing new. To the Woketards, the ‘far-Right’ are always ‘rising’ mysteriously; as if they were vapours from a stagnant mere, forming will-o-the-wisps leading the unsuspecting to their doom.
Even everyone’s Hogwarts Hero spends an entire book complaining how angry he is all the time.
What a great quote of yours to remember!
“To the Woketards, the ‘far-Right’ are always ‘rising’ mysteriously; as if they were vapours from a stagnant mere, forming will-o-the-wisps leading the unsuspecting to their doom.”
Thanks Laurie means I don’t need to watch it now (not that I was going to). Sounds as ghastly as I thought it might be given all the hype it’s had mostly from left wing sources. Just another government sponsored propaganda ploy to push more of their freedom restricting Bills through Parliament. Once again as with the Scamdemic they are using children as weapons.
Like mermaids before it; this sort of crude propaganda makes me feel ill.
This is an absolutely brilliant piece by Laurie Wastell.
If only all the idiot parents who have commented online that they’ve been diligently watching this with their kids, taking it all seriously as a real documentary, would read Laurie Wastell’s article, and be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for helping Depraved Globalist Communists poison the minds of their children.
You have to remember that in the liberal mind, young boys/men are terrifying – but they are also victims. They need help, for example from a serious and grown-up (and female obvs) psychiatrist. They have been “radicalised”. “Radicalisation” is a disease that you catch by watching Andrew Tate. In their minds, if you are radicalised, you need “support” – and that applies whether you are a teenage murderer or an Islamist radical terrorist.
The liberal mindset is always and everywhere about removing agency from people. Everyone who acts badly needs help. You see it in the language that the media use when they discuss why social workers did not “intervene to support the family” when parents hurt or kill their children.
I’ve re-joined DS with a recurring subscription having joined for a month at a time before. But I’ve been reading and mainly liking since 2020. The trigger to re-join was to read this article but also comment on some other recent articles.
I’m interested in this debate because I binged watched it last Sunday and thought it was an excellent bit of drama. I usually have a relatively low threshold of boredom when it comes to TV these days but it kept my attention for four hours.
It clearly hit a sweet spot because my 40-60 year old middle-class wealthy female friends started posting about it on good old Facebook. Something that’s quite rare these days. I asked a friend’s 14 year son about the emoji and he said some of them he knew about.
I got annoyed with everyone on X complaining about why it was a white middle-class boy when that’s clearly not the predominant demographic committing knife crime. Of course that’s true but that really is a different story. Knife crime here is the symptom not the motive.
But when Starmer started gushing about it, my spider sense start tingling. It started to niggle at me and some of the plot holes mentioned above started to stand out. It was almost that I’d been mesmerised by the drama and overlooked reality. But then again, it’s not a drama and doesn’t have to be truthful. Except the government and online, they started treating it as real.
Some aspects are indeed true – I’m not convinced social media is entirely a force for good these days and whilst I’m no fan of “govern me harder”, this level of social media is something new and I’m not sure we’ve got the handle on it even for adults. Bullying has always existed but bullying online is a new layer. I certainly never saw compromising pictures of the girls when I was at school. I know that happens – a young 20-something girl I knew committed suicide and her bf sharing compromising pictures of her was a contributing factor. But online bullying probably cuts across all demographics.
The manosphere and Andrew Tate? I really haven’t got a real handle on that yet and to be honest, I’m not in a rush to research more.
I was mildly surprised how polarised the comments are on here. I’m usually in the supportive side of most comments but on this one, I’m not so sure.