The writer Jack Thorne responded to an “absurd” controversial spread by Elon Musk, among others.
“Adolescence” became one of Netflix’s greatest recent successes. The series created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thornewith its references to toxic masculinity, the incel subculture and the pressure towards the youngest on social networks, It has generated controversy in social networks with conspiracy criticisms that call it from “Propaganda against the white race”. The opinion that generated more stir was that of the very, Elon Musk.
The 4 -chapter series follows Jamie Miller’s family (played by Owen Cooper), a 13 -year -old school, accused of the murder of a girl. Last week, a post on the social network X of Musk claimed that adolescence is based on “real -life cases such as that of the Southport murderer.”
The post continued to say that, as the author of that case was black, and the central character of the Netflix series is white, the series is equivalent to “Antiblancos propaganda”. The post was taken to a broader audience by Musk, who commented on the post with an admirative “Wow”.
In the Podcast The News Agents, Thorne, who created the series with the actor Stephen Grahamhe replied: “They have affirmed that Stephen and I rely on a story, and another story, so we exchanged races because we rely here and ended there, and everything else. Nothing is further from reality. “ And he continued: “I have told many real life stories in my life, and I know the damage it can cause when you take elements of a real life story and put them on the screen and people are not expected. There is no part of this that is based on a real story, not a single part.”
“It is absurd to say that crimes with a white weapon are only committed by black boys. It is absurd. It is not true. And The story shows many cases of boys from all races committed by these crimes. We are not talking about race. We talk about masculinity. We try to enter a problem. We are not saying that this is one thing or another, we are saying that these are boys, “he added.
Source: Ambito
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