Zero Hedge | Feb. 20, 2023
Several of the UK’s most respected TV shows, movies, and works of literature have been included in a list of works that could potentially encourage far-right sympathies, compiled by the taxpayer-funded and government-led ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism program.
As The Daily Mail reports, works by some of the world’s greatest writers were included as examples of warning signs of potential extremism, including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Orwell, Huxley, Kipling and Edmund Burke.
The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare as possible red flags of extremism.
Prevent is a key part of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy as a means to safeguard against “vulnerable people being drawn into criminal behavior”.
In practical terms, it places public bodies, including schools and the police, under a legal duty to identify people who may turn to extremism, and intervene in their lives before it is too late.
If the local panels find someone who is at risk of becoming a terrorist, the Prevent teams use specialist mentors or other support programs to turn around their lives.
It said the works of fiction were “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists”.
When the Left equates the greatest works of literature with “white nationalists/supremacists”, then truly they have lost their minds.
This just isn’t going to let up, is it? Bring it on, I say. It can only serve to further wake up our brainwashed people, even if it requires beating them over the head with this outrageous, anti-White, unjustifiable nonsense.
Does this mean we parents & grandparents can read ‘Little Black Sambo’ to our kids again?!