The co-creator of Netflix ‘s hit drama Adolescence has responded to accusations that the show is “anti-white propaganda.” Jack Thorne said the allegation was “absurd” in an interview on The News Agents podcast. The accusation began with a post on X by Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysia-based right-wing commentator, who claimed the series is “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,” the post continued. “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 post gained wider attention when Elon Musk responded, “Wow.” Talking on the News Agents podcast, Thorne was asked by host Jon Sopel about the conspiracy theory that asks “why was it the portrayal of a white boy who commits a knife and it’s mostly black kids who commit knife crimes in this country?” Thorne, who created the show with Stephen Graham, responded: “They’ve claimed that Stephen and I based it on a story, and another story, so we race-swapped because we were basing it on here, and it ended up there, and everything else. Nothing is further from the truth.
“I have told a lot of real-life stories in my time, and I know the harm that can come when you take elements of a real-life story and put it on screen and the people aren’.