ORGIES, INCEST, PEDOPHILIA, DRUGS, CHILD MUTILIATION, HOMICIDE, SUICIDE, ABORTION...
And you thought Cuties, Dear White People and Cocomelon are bad? This all takes place in one of Netflix's most popular *teenage* dramas.
I watched it all. Read on, if you have the stomach.
Have you ever heard of Élite? If not, you should have. Because this Spanish teen drama is possibly the most dangerous piece of progressive propaganda ever created.
1/ The premise of the show is about an “elite” international school in Madrid called Las Encinas and the lives of its ultra-privileged students.
The characters are aged between 16 and 18, meaning the majority of them are minors.
2/ Although the show is in Spanish, it has reached tens of millions of young people not just in Spain and Latin America, but around the world.
Its actors have been catapulted to international stardom. It has even been adapted in India under the name 'Class.'
3/ So, what’s the problem? Well, just about everything.
When you consider that the characters are school kids and the way their lives are portrayed, you soon realize that this show is giving teenagers a perspective on life that is not just false, but deeply toxic and depraved.
4/ Rather than give a breakdown of the entire plot, this thread will provide just some examples of the show’s themes and plot lines that will make your hair stand on end.
5/ INCEST: One of the most shocking themes is the show’s repeated use of incest.
In one of the plot lines, a brother and sister (played by Mexican singer Danna Paola) are known to regularly have intercourse, not just in the privacy of their own home but even at social events.
6/ On one occasion the siblings are caught having it off at a party by one of the other students.
On another occasion, the brother starts fingering his sister at the family dinner table until the father catches them and goes ballistic.
7/ A separate yet even more appalling plotline involves a mother taking cocaine with her son. He does not realize she is his biological mother.
The mother and son end up getting frisky on the sofa together. This is after he already hooked up with his half-sister.
8/ GAY ORGIES: A staggering number of the show’s teenage characters are homosexual.
There is nothing wrong with this (in theory) until they start engaging in rampant promiscuity and even orgies.
Remember, these kids are meant to be 16.
9/ CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: Cruz Carvalho, a high-flying Portuguese footballer and single father (who bears an uncanny to Cristiano Ronaldo), is a closeted homosexual.
His son also happens to be gay and has a boyfriend. The father gets jealous, so what does he do?
10/ You guessed it. He has sex with his teenage son’s boyfriend. The pair later get caught kissing at a nightclub and the footage goes viral.
Cruz decides comes out publicly as gay (is this a hint at Ronaldo?) before he is brutally murdered in a homophobic hate crime. Tragic!
11/ TRANSGENDERISM: Inevitably, the show introduces a female-to-male transgender character in its sixth season.
So, not only did this kid transition before he was 18, but his surgeries were performed by… wait for it… his own father.
Is that even legal?
12/ Although this character, ‘Nico,’ is portrayed as relatively amicable, at one point he lends a girl his chemical hormones in order to CHEMICALLY CASTRATE a student he suspects of being a rapist.
No criminal charges, of course…
13/ ABORTION: After one of the students falls pregnant following a one-night stand, she finds herself in a bit of a pickle.
Not to worry though. She quietly terminates her pregnancy via an abortion and all her problems go away.
14/ CRIMINAL FRAUD: In one ludicrous plot line, a scholarship student with an inferiority complex holds a “charity event” from which she intends to pocket the money.
Her scheme is foiled, although she is somehow
forgiven by the school and her peers almost immediately.
15/ PROSTITUTION: Despite being the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the current headmaster of the school, one girl turns to selling sex to plump up her bank account.
Eventually, her client starts blackmailing her for sex before he ends up being brutally murdered.
16/ GANG RAPE: In one scene, the school aged kids go on a drug fueled rampage in Ibiza.
Some of the boys get carried away and end up gang raping the girl. This is intended as a divine retribution for her previously sticking up for another rapist she wishes to have sex with.
17/ HOMICIDE: One of the (arguably) least controversial aspects of the show are the countless brutal murders that take place.
Most of these murders are committed by students against students. Most of them get away with it and life just goes back to normal.
18/ SUICIDE: Thoughts of self harm are also a prevalent theme, with at least three students coming close to topping themselves. None of them end up going through with it.
Be grateful for small mercies!
19/ Of all the shows Netflix has produced, this is one the most dangerous.
Its aim is to glamorize the life of Spain's "rich kids" to impressionable young teenagers.
Millions of young people now grow up thinking this sort of behavior is normal. It is not.
20/ This thread may go nowhere.
Either way, it was important to make a public record of what Netflix is putting out there.
Ask your children or their friends if they have seen it. And help spread the word about the poison Netflix is feeding to young people around the world.
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