| | Have you seen that Netflix show Adolescence? |
| | It follows this really young kid who's arrested for murdering a young girl in his class. |
| | You haven't seen it? |
| | Oh, follow-up question. |
| | Why do you hate women? |
| | And actually, before you answer that, another question. |
| | Who do you think you are? |
| | Guys, I know I sound crazy, but this is exactly what happens to a UK politician when she's confronted by the fact that she hasn't seen a fictional Netflix show titled Adolescence. |
| | And apparently because she hasn't seen that show, she's unqualified to talk about violence against women. |
| | Yep, it's really happening. |
| | Let's talk about it. |
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| | Yes, today we are going across the pond to talk about the UK and this Netflix show titled Adolescence, which I told you surrounds the arrest of a young boy who's accused of murdering a young girl at his school. |
| | Now, US politician and leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Betanok, went on a BBC News show to talk about violence against young women. |
| | And the show Adolescence is brought up by the two reporters who are questioning her. |
| | And I shit you not, this is one of the craziest clips I've seen out of the news in quite some time. |
| | Kemi Betanok is actually somewhat punished for not having seen the show Adolescence. |
| | Let's roll the clip. |
| | Have you watched Adolescence yet? |
| | No, no, I haven't. |
| | I probably won't. |
| | It's a film on Netflix and most of my time right now is spent visiting the country. |
| | It's a four-part series on Netflix and everyone is talking about it. |
| | It is prompting conversations about toxic masculinity, smartphone use, young men feeling that they're being ignored, the idea of misogyny being increased in school. |
| | Why would you not want to know what people are talking about? |
| | Well, I think that those are all important issues and those were issues that I've been talking about for a long time. |
| | But in the same way that I don't need to watch Casualty to know what's going on in the NHS, I don't need to watch a specific Netflix drama to understand what's going on. |
| | It's a fictional series. |
| | It is not a documentary. |
| | What I've been talking about recently, for instance, is banning smartphones in schools. |
| | I've been going to schools all around the country. |
| | I was in Evesham just yesterday talking to headteachers, talking to students and they talk about the problems that phones are causing. |
| | The difference this documentary has made compared to, say, a politician, any politician, leader of a party, the Prime Minister, going around talking in schools, is this has made much more of an impact than any politician has in terms of what people are talking about right now. |
| | Goodness gracious. |
| | I'm losing IQ points in listening to this. |
| | It's unbelievable. |
| | And they must not know who they're talking to, which I don't know how that's possible when you're talking to Kemi Bedanoch. |
| | She's been working on all of these issues, as she stated in this response to Have You Watch Adolescence? |
| | for quite some time. |
| | She didn't need a fictional Netflix show to spark this conversation in her mind and to actually do work on these issues. |
| | Yet these two journalists, we can even call them that, are questioning her as to why she has not spent a considerable portion of the time in her day sitting down to watch a fictional Netflix show. |
| | Fictional. |
| | Have to emphasize. |
| | Let's keep watching. |
| | Now, so it's really confusing that you don't want to know why, how this has made an impact, how parents are now saying we need to know more about smartphone use. |
| | I can read what people are saying about it. |
| | I look at research. |
| | This is something that I've been looking at for a long time. |
| | You wouldn't want to know straight from the horse's mouth. |
| | One of the things that I'm more bothered. |
| | Straight from the horse's mouth. |
| | The horse's mouth being a fictionalized show that is not a documentary, which is interesting because this journalist keeps referring to it as a documentary. |
| | There's no horse's mouth when it's a fictional show. |
| | It in fact would be a fake horse. |
| | Is the fact that just yesterday we had labor telling us that they're not going to be investigating the rape gang scandal, something which had happened all across the country. |
| | That's real. |
| | That's happening right now. |
| | We're not talking about that. |
| | We're talking about a fictional documentary. |
| | Do you think you're... We had thousands of... |
| | If I may just finish. |
| | We had thousands of victims. |
| | Female victims. |
| | Those are girls, young women, and some boys too. |
| | I met the mother of a boy who killed himself after being a victim. |
| | I want to talk about that because that is real. |
| | And yes, I'm glad that the Netflix drama is something that people are talking about, but it is not the only thing. |
| | There are many other things that are going on. |
| | And my job as opposition, as opposition leader, is to hold the government to account, get them to hold a full national inquiry on what is one of the biggest scandals in our country. |
| | And do you stand by the thing you just said a moment ago, that you're comparing adolescents with casualty? |
| | These TV programs? |
| | You... Oh gosh. |
| | We don't know what analogies are. |
| | We don't know what analogies are. |
| | We don't know what documentaries are. |
| | We don't know that we should not be encouraging politicians to watch fictional art as a means of understanding what's happening in the real world. |
| | These two individuals should not be journalists. |
| | Now I got to come over here for a second. |
| | Okay. |
| | I don't know how long this adolescence show is. |
| | They're saying it's a four part series. |
| | Let's go ahead and say it's around four hours. |
| | So Kemi Baitanok, who actively in her work is working on not only establishing investigations into gang rape crimes that have been affecting for decades now, thousands of young women, thousands of minor women, older women, young boys in some instances. |
| | And I'm talking about extremely heinous gang rapes that are perpetrated on these young women. |
| | She's spending her time trying to launch full scale investigations to protect young women from that type of violence. |
| | They are saying you should halt that for just a moment, four hours of your time, please, to watch a fictional show with a fictional crime. |
| | And when we look into the show, the details of the crime itself seem to be really not indicative of the actual violent crimes that are taking place in the UK. |
| | So please, Kemi Baitanok, halt your very important work to watch this fictional show The Hak Tua Girl, sparked a lot of conversations here in the US for quite some time, and now she has her own podcast. |
| | Do we urge politicians to stop and watch these things so that they can get a pulse on what human beings are talking about and what they're interested in? |
| | No. |
| | Now, if there was something actually real to be gleaned from this fictional show, still, I would say, can we find something real? |
| | Maybe a documentary? |
| | Although they seem to think it's a documentary. |
| | Kemi Baitanok has more important things to do. |
| | Now, I'm glad that people are talking about violence against women after watching adolescents, even though adolescents doesn't seem to be a very accurate depiction of violence against women. |
| | But I digress. |
| | Doesn't mean that's something that Kemi Baitanok needs to be working on. |
| | Did you really mean to say that? |
| | I'm saying very clearly that my job is not to watch lots of TV. |
| | My job is to get out there and make sure that I'm talking about the issues that are happening in the country right now. |
| | And yes, of course, we should be talking about misogyny. |
| | The rape gang scandal is one of the most misogynistic incidents that has happened in our country. |
| | So me talking about that, me asking for a national inquiry is doing my job. |
| | But telling me that I should go home and watch Netflix is you trying to tell me how to do my job. |
| | But I don't think that's how to do my job. |
| | I can read about that. |
| | It's so interesting. |
| | You know, like here in the United States, we're sitting and begging politicians to like do actual work. |
| | It's like, please get something done. |
| | Please, please, please, for the life of us, can we find somebody from either party who wants to get something done? |
| | And then you have Kemi Baitanok sitting here on the couch saying, I actually want to do real work with real victims and talk about real violence against women. |
| | And you're begging her to go home and watch a Netflix show. |
| | Make it make sense. |
| | And I urge all of you guys to look into the gang rape scandal that she's talking about. |
| | We have a video about it on this channel, but doesn't even give you the full breadth of everything that has been taking place and continues to take place in the UK. |
| | We're talking about large scale gang rape violence against predominantly young white women. |
| | And that seems to be the victim in this fictional adolescence film. |
| | Anyways, that's what Kemi Baitanok is working on. |
| | And it's happening in many geographic locations in the UK. |
| | I think over 20 different townships and cities in the UK. |
| | That is what she is trying to launch a full scale investigation into to get to the numbers and to get to the bottom of it. |
| | And they're asking her to take her time to watch adolescence. |
| | What point did I tell you? |
| | Well, well, well, you just said that you were surprised that I haven't watched it. |
| | We don't have to watch a particular show to know what is going on in the country. |
| | I have met parents. |
| | I've met parents of children who've had those experiences. |
| | I have met children who've been victims. |
| | I think that that is enough for me to go out there, make policy, look at the research. |
| | Yeah, adolescence is me. |
| | But I don't think the right thing is to be deciding who has watched which show and working out whether that means that you are informed. |
| | Adolescence. |
| | There are many ways for us to be informed. |
| | Adolescence has made more of an impact than any politician has on parents and when it comes to the issue of smartphones and misogyny. |
| | And yet you are saying, despite that, you don't need to know about it. |
| | Well, no, I haven't said that I don't need to know about the issue. |
| | You don't need to watch it. |
| | I don't need to watch a specific show to know what is going on in this country. |
| | It's a fictional show. |
| | We are literally living in a dystopian hellscape. |
| | I mean, I don't know how else to describe what it is I'm watching right now. |
| | My jaw would be on the floor, you know, if I had allowed it to be. |
| | It's so crazy to watch somebody have to so viciously defend doing their actual job to protect real victims of crime. |
| | Let's talk about what's real. |
| | I'm going out there every day. |
| | I have constituents coming to me telling me what they're worried about. |
| | I had a colleague, an MP, who was murdered due to Islamic terrorism. |
| | You look at what's happened in Southport. |
| | You look at what's happening in Rotherham, in Alden. |
| | There are real issues. |
| | I'm getting out there talking about it, asking me to sit down and watch a television drama. |
| | That lots of other people have seen, have written about, have told me about. |
| | I know what it's about. |
| | I think it is important. |
| | But it was also, it's also fiction. |
| | Let's talk about what's happening to real people. |
| | You had a mother of a woman who was killed. |
| | Let's talk about her. |
| | That's real life. |
| | That's real life. |
| | And now they just sit there thinking that they somehow have made the right point and she hasn't. |
| | Now, we can get into the adolescence thing. |
| | Super popular show. |
| | Seems to have a very interesting message to it. |
| | I think interwoven into the story is talk of, you know, really monitoring what your kid is being, you know, influenced by on social media and the impact that they can have as kids are often being raised by screens. |
| | Even in households with really good active parents, we could always be doing more. |
| | And we should be talking to young people about violence, about messaging, about values. |
| | And we should be watching their social media to see what is sort of penetrating the barrier that we try to create as parents. |
| | That's really important. |
| | Now, the show Adolescence has not become the Bible for doing that. |
| | And it seems as though the UK is treating it that way. |
| | We have a report out of AP that says this. |
| | Adolescence will be shown in schools across the UK to spark conversations on social media harm. |
| | Is it really that deep? |
| | Can we have the conversation without showing a fictionalized version, a fictionalized Netflix show to these young children? |
| | I think so. |
| | Maybe we shouldn't be turning to Netflix and whoever has made, you know, the most talked about, not documentary, but fictional show of the time to raise our kids. |
| | In fact, it's interesting that like the message of adolescence is that your kids are being raised by someone else and we're going to use adolescence in order to raise our kids and speak to them about social media harm. |
| | Not to mention the fact that it seems like adolescence has done a little bit of a role switching when it comes to the crime that they've displayed in the show. |
| | And what I've seen online in the conversation surrounding is the crime that takes place in adolescence is typically done by a different demographic than what is depicted in the show. |
| | And I'm very proud of the young actor who's taken on that lead role in adolescence. |
| | And I believe it's his first acting job and he's done a really good job. |
| | And the show is very artistic in its depiction of what it's trying to show people. |
| | But is it accurate? |
| | I'm not sure. |
| | I'm not sure that it's accurate. |
| | And a lot of the show surrounds this idea of inceldom and incel culture. |
| | And that's what this young boy happens to be influenced by online. |
| | And looking into the stats on incel crime in the UK, it seems like it's less than like 0.001% of violent crimes against women in the UK. |
| | When you look at what Kimmy Betadoc is talking about with the gang rape violence and looking into maybe the racial demographic of those perpetrators, the numbers change quite a bit. |
| | So if adolescence is not necessarily giving us a realistic depiction of what these crimes look like and what violence against women actually look like, how many schools should really be having that discussion? |
| | Can we have a discussion about social media harm without having to totally depend on this Netflix show? |
| | What, because it's the most popular Netflix show right now? |
| | I don't know. |
| | Make it make sense. |
| | I think we've lost our marbles a little bit. |
| | And apparently we handed those marbles, I don't know, to a corporation called Netflix, because it's insane to watch this news clip and think that those two journalists are in the right. |
| | And finally, you have a politician who is begging that we focus on real victims of crimes. |
| | And I'll tell you something, these thousands of young women who have been victimized and gang raped by these groups of organized criminals, they're not being gang raped by 13 year old white boys who they go to school with. |
| | Nope. |
| | It's in fact, predominantly British Pakistani males and older men, in fact. |
| | So maybe we should talk about that because that's real. |
| | It's not fictional. |
| | It wasn't put together by a screenwriter and a director and a production team and a whole slew of actors. |
| | In fact, actually happens. |
| | And these women are currently fighting for justice. |
| | But yes, let's tell Kemi Batenok to go home and watch Netflix. |
| | Guys, those are my thoughts on this. |
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