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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected. [/quote]

Did Trump get elected because when people like you encounter something that doesn't perfectly confirm your worldview, you refuse to look at it or engage with it and then draw broad conclusions about it anyway? It does sound like you are onto something.

FTR, if you look at the statistics for stabbing homicides in England and Wales, you will see that most victims and perpetrators of these crimes are white, and that if the victim is white, the perpetrator is most likely to also be white. The series also accurately portrays other nuances of the statistics. For instance, when a stabbing victim is female and the perpetrator is someone known to her, the most common motive is "quarrel, revenge, or loss of temper." In other ways, the show deviates from the statistical norm for obvious reasons. For instance, while knife crimes are on the rise in the UK across all age groups, including teenagers, a knife crime is far more likely to have a victim and perpetrator in their 20s or 30s than a teen/tween. But obviously the show wanted to look at the disturbing trend of young teens stabbing each other, not to create an approximation of the average knife crime. You can look at detailed statistics in the spreadsheet available here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/appendixtableshomicideinenglandandwales

I will also note that the people who are accusing the series of "twisting" a real story are most often referring to the very tragic killing of three young (white) girls at a Taylor Swift themed dance class by a murderer who is black. It was a highly publicized case in the UK and the perpetrator was recently sentenced, so a lot of people seem to assume the crime in Adolescence was ripped from those headlines. Except that doesn't make sense at all. The murderer in that case was 17 at the time (now 18) and the victims were six and seven years old (in addition to stabbing and killing these three girls, the murderer also injured 10 other people at the party, mostly other children). So it was an extremely different case of an older teen going on a killing spree against very young children. A horrible, tragic event but not at all what the series depicts.

There are plenty of stories of crimes more similar to what Adolescence depicts in UK news if you look, however because the killers in those cases are under age 15 or 16 (I can't remember what the cut off is in the UK), their names and identities are shielded, so we don't know their race. However, based on the locations of these killings and the race of the victims (plenty of them are white, and as I noted, white victims are significantly more likely to have been killed by white assailants), there is absolutely no reason to think the show creators "twisted" the facts of real life killings to fit a race agenda. There have undoubtedly been knife killings in the UK similar to the one depicted on the show. The show is fiction and not based on a single killing, but they are depicting a real issue in the UK with honesty and accuracy.[/quote]

Don't waste your breath, as well said as this was. These people have an angle and won't deviate from it. Never mind that show's cinematography is outstandingly cool (one continuous shot for each episode!); or that Stpehen Graham is an amazing actor (white man) and he co-created and wrote the show and wanted to be in it; never mind that the core issue ISN'T knife violence, it's the effects of family, peers, and social media on developing minds (male and female--Katie is not centered, but we do learn a lot).

Never mind all that. it is just woke garbage because the police are blalck and female and the murderer is a young white boy. I can't roll my eyes hard enough.[/quote]

Right? Bogeyman = immigrant, according to the cult handbook.

Facts are woke. [/quote]

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