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Subject: Matt Walsh Breaks Down The Deceptive Propaganda In "Adolescence" Netflix Show
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:30:44 -0400
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One of the easiest ways to tell that one side is losing a debate � whether 
it�s about politics or anything else that�s grounded in the real world � is 
when they stop talking about specifics, and start talking about fantasy. Once 
you have to start relying on pure fiction to make your point, it�s usually a 
pretty good indicator that you don�t have much of a point to begin with. When 
feminists began citing �The Handmaid�s Tale� as a warning of what Donald 
Trump�s administration would look like, serious people understood that it 
wasn�t a clever analogy or a useful metaphor. It was desperation. It was a 
bit like citing �Shrek� as proof that we need to open the borders to creepy-
looking outsiders. No one who�s attained even a basic level of maturity and 
competence would fall for this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, as we�ve all known for a while now, basic levels of maturity 
and competence are nowhere to be found in the UK, which is why the entire 
country is currently transfixed by a Netflix miniseries called �Adolescence.� 
The show debuted last month, and already, it�s something of a cultural icon 
over there. At this point, calling �Adolescence� a mere �miniseries� is 
practically hate speech in Britain. They prefer to think of the show as a 
documentary, if not their bible. Everyone is expected to watch the entire 
show, start-to-finish, before they can engage in any kind of public debate on 
any topic.

In a moment, I�ll talk about why this is happening. We�ll also go through the 
show, episode-by-episode, and discuss the plot and how utterly terrible it 
is, in every respect. For now, all you need to know is that � spoiler alert � 
the show is about a white 13-year-old boy who stabs a female classmate to 
death. He was upset because she rejected his advances, then taunted him 
online about being an incel. And the show makes a big deal out of how online 
interactions like this, along with misogynistic content on the internet, can 
supposedly �radicalize� young boys and turn them into killers.

From a production standpoint, the central gimmick of the show is that all 
four episodes are done in �one take,� with no camera cuts of any kind. So you 
follow the journey of this 13-year-old kid as he�s arrested for murder, 
processed, interrogated, and so on. At various points, as a result of this 
groundbreaking approach to production, you�re even treated to uneventful 10-
minute-long car rides to the local store, which is really riveting 
television. As far as I can tell, the point of this gimmick is to remind you 
of why things like �cuts� and �editing� were invented in the first place. If 
that was the objective, then: mission accomplished.

Before we get further into the specifics of the show � just so that you 
understand the magnitude of the mass psychosis I�m talking about, you need to 
watch this interview that just aired on a morning show called �BBC 
Breakfast.� Throughout this entire conversation, the two anchors berate the 
leader of Britain�s conservative party, a woman named Kemi Badenoch, for not 
watching �Adolescence.� And as the interview goes on, the anchors become more 
and more annoyed with the politician for not showing the proper deference to 
this show, which the anchor calls a �documentary� at one point. It�s pretty 
remarkable. Watch:

https://youtu.be/z62Z_qEqNLs

It�s important to highlight this particular moment:

	The difference this documentary has made � is that this has made 
	much more of an impact than any politician has, in terms of what 
	people are talking about right now.

This is the anchor�s response when the conservative leader reminds her, again 
and again, that the show is fictional. She calls it a �documentary� and says 
the show is being taken far more seriously than anything any political figure 
is saying. But instead of treating this like a very bad development for 
public discourse in Britain, the BBC anchor embraces it. She�s thrilled that 
the country has decided to abandon reality and fixate on a fictional 
diagnosis of their problems. And she can�t understand why the politician is 
confused and appalled by all of this.

The male anchor gets in on the action, too. He begins accosting the 
politician because she dared to compare �Adolescence� to �Casualty,� another 
fictional show that the British can�t get enough of. That�s when Badenoch 
reminds them of the actual problems facing the country. Watch:

https://youtu.be/NIb9A8vohtM

Badenoch is trying to explain that, in Britain, Islamic terrorists are 
killing people in the street and Pakistani sex-abuse gangs are terrorizing 
children. But the anchors didn�t ask a single question about any of that. 
Instead, they continued to grill her over the 13-year-old white killer in a 
fictional Netflix show. We�re supposed to believe that this made-up 13-year-
old character, whose name is Jamie, is representative of the real threat in 
the UK.

From a statistical perspective this isn�t simply false. It�s one of the most 
flagrant lies the BBC has ever told, which is saying something. The statistic 
I�m about to read comes directly from the website of the government of 
London, and it�s accurate as of 2022:

	Despite making up only 13% of London�s total population, black 
	Londoners account for 45% of London�s knife murder victims, 61% of 
	knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.

In England & Wales, as of 2017, roughly 38% of youth knife-crime charges 
involve ethnic minorities, even though they�re only around 17% of the 
population. Of course, most of these killers come from broken homes; as one 
UK study found, more than 70% of violent youth offenders come from single-
parent households. If all of those numbers sound familiar, it�s because 
that�s how the crime stats break down in the U.S., too.

Meanwhile, violence that�s targeted against women � the problem that 
�Adolescence� is all about � is actually declining.

Take a look at this chart:

https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GoXB9tcXUAAy724.jpeg

The Guardian UK. Violent crime figures for England and Wales. Photo: ONS
As you can see, violence against women in particular has been declining for 
decades in the UK. So there is no wave of young males taking out their 
aggression on women. On the other hand, there is an epidemic of violence 
that�s being committed by Britain�s non-white population, which has exploded 
in recent years. According to the UK�s Office for National Statistics, knife 
crime has increased by roughly one-third since 2010, as the population has 
grown dramatically due to migration.

People in the UK can see this is happening all around them. But now, rather 
than confront reality, they�re creating a fantasy world in which young white 
men are the actual problem. The British government is playing a large role in 
creating this alternate universe, for the obvious reason that it deflects 
from their failures. 

That�s why they�re now instructing schools to play �Adolescence� for their 
students, as if it has any kind of instructional value whatsoever:

https://youtu.be/WwNSPLnOdYw

So they�re calling �Adolescence� a documentary, and they�re using it as an 
educational tool in schools. This is the British equivalent of the 
�Handmaid�s Tale� metaphor, except the entire country is transfixed by it. 
But what is this show, exactly? Just how terrible is it?

As it turns out, it�s not simply an example of �race-swapping,� as you�ve 
probably heard many others say online. Yes, they�ve made sure that a white 
boy stabs the victim in this show, instead of someone more realistic, like a 
Somali migrant. But if you watch �Adolescence,� you�ll realize that this is 
actually much worse than a simple �race swap.� That�s just the beginning of 
what�s going on here. Throughout the entire show, they beat you over the head 
with the idea that there�s a vast underground community of white misogynist 
men lurking in the shadows because their brains have been poisoned by content 
they�re seeing on Instagram.

For one thing, the killer�s white male best friend supplies the murder weapon 
(a knife), so that the killer can scare the female victim with it. This is 
all very upsetting to the studious black student in the school, who�s 
dismayed by all of the white male rage that surrounds him. Then there�s a 
scene where the father of the killer goes to the hardware store. He�s trying 
to buy paint because his work van was just sprayed with graffiti. And then 
when he�s talking to an employee � who happens to be a young white man � the 
employee suddenly starts whispering. The employee tells the father that he�s 
on his �side,� meaning that he thinks his son didn�t do anything wrong. And 
then he starts offering advice to the father about how his son could be 
acquitted by challenging certain pieces of evidence, even though the murder 
was caught on surveillance footage. The employee even tells the father to 
launch a crowdfunding campaign, because there are apparently a lot of other 
angry white men who think it�s great when white men stab innocent victims to 
death.

The irony, of course, is that there is indeed a large community that�s 
willing to pay money to killers who stab people to death for no reason. But 
it�s not a community of young white men. In reality, the fundraisers are 
being established for thugs like Karmelo Anthony, as we discussed last week. 
In fact, Anthony has raised nearly $500,000 at this point, all because he 
stabbed a white high school student in the heart during a track meet. But in 
the world of �Adolescence,� reality is inverted. We�re supposed to pretend 
that all of these deep-seated cultural problems exist among young white men, 
to the point that the father can�t even go to a hardware store without being 
reminded of how many angry incels are out there.

And in case you�re wondering just how angry these 13-year-old incels can be, 
there�s also an entire episode that�s devoted to the killer doing an 
interview with a female forensic psychologist. For an entire hour, you get to 
listen to this child talking to the psychologist. And it�s supposed to be 
really profound, because this is the first time that you see how angry and 
vindictive this child can become, when he�s dealing face-to-face with a 
woman. The dialogue includes truly clever lines like, �what do these emojis 
mean?� The kid�s hour-long interview with this psychologist ends with her 
telling him that there won�t be any more sessions between the two of them. 
And then the child freaks out and berates her, and has to be carried out of 
the room. So again, they�re beating you over the head with the idea that he 
needs to control women with his male rage. And then the psychologist breaks 
down, practically in tears, because even though she�s an adult professional 
who�s trained for situations just like this one, she�s still no match for the 
male rage of a 13-year-old kid.
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