Elon Musk slams Netflix series Adolescence, co-writer replies 'not making a point about...'

Elon Musk recently replied to an X post, alleging an “anti-white propaganda” theory in Netflix’s Adolescence series. X user named Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray shared the post, stating the makers of the web series “Netflix has a show called Adolescence that’s about a British knife killer who stabbed a girl to death on a bus and it’s based on real life cases such as the Southport murderer. So guess what. They race swapped the actual killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy and the story has it so he was radicalized online by the red pill movement. Just the absolute state of anti-white propaganda.” The Tesla CEO responded to the tweet with a “Wow”.

Another X user replied to the post, stating “None of this is true. There's no bus, it's not based on the Southport case in fact, it's not based on anyone individual case at all, but based on the wide ranging effects of Knife Crime in the UK as a whole. These claims have been debunked MANY times already.”

Discussing the race swapping at a podcast recently, Adolescence co-writer Jack Thorne said that “nothing could be further from the truth”. “There is no part of this that's based on a true story, not one single part," Thorne said.
Thorne said having a white boy in the series isn't about making a point about race. "We're not making a point about race with this. We are making a point about masculinity. We're trying to get inside a problem. We're not saying this is one thing or another, we're saying that this is about boys," he stated.