Author Douglass Murray discusses the policy by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer allowing the Netflix drama series Adolescence to be shown in secondary schools across the country for free.Starmer talked about “the devastating effect of misogyny on our society.”"Keir Starmer has been labouring under the misapprehension that the Netflix series Adolescence is, in fact, a documentary," Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
"You would have to be pretty idiotic to think that what that is."
I commented about this show and I am wondering what he thinks is the lesson.
The show was apparently partly inspired by a knife crime by an older Black teenager. A crime like this from a 13-year-old seemingly-harmless White kid like the one in the show would be very improbable.
The police have video proof that the boy committed the crime, so there is no doubt that he will be found guilty. Nevertheless, he has a right to a defense, and to tell the court how he was provoked by bullies. Much of the show is about steps to accord him that right.
Except that he never gets that right. His own lawyer hires a female psychologist who acts more like a police interrogator than a defense witness. She bullies him, and tries to get him to incriminate himself. She speaks completely inappropriately to a 13-year-old boy. His parents are not there to protect him from this abuse.
I know this is just a fictional movie, and I would not take it seriously, except for all the people who rave about this as if it were making a serious statement about toxic masculinity and violent incels. No, a 13-year-old is not an incel.
If you think a 13-year-old killer should be dealt harshly, then I understand that. But I do not agree with giving him a defense lawyer who hires a woman to abuse and humiliate him.
Update: There is a real teenaged stabbing in the news. A 17yo Black boy stabbed and killed a 16yo White boy in Frisco Texas.