{"id":1759944,"date":"2022-12-02T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759944"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:03:02","slug":"when-media-tried-to-turn-netflixs-wednesday-into-a-racism-controversy-its-producer-shut-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-media-tried-to-turn-netflixs-wednesday-into-a-racism-controversy-its-producer-shut-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"When Media Tried To Turn Netflix\u2019s \u2018Wednesday\u2019 Into A Racism Controversy, Its Producer Shut Them Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhen-media-tried-to-turn-netflixs-wednesday-into-a-racism-controversy-its-producer-shut-them-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It didn\u2019t take long for a handful of viewers to decide that Netflix\u2019s Addams Family spinoff series \u201cWednesday\u201d is racist, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenthecreator\/status\/1598529806668533762?s=20&#038;t=Ub4SPKaL5HG3OI47yB1XqQ\">crime<\/a> of featuring villains who happen to be black. <\/p>\n<p>The media predictably seized on the few tweets to contrive a controversy surrounding Netflix\u2019s currently No. 1 show. But when one outlet reached out to Executive Producer Tim Burton for comment on the \u201cracism\u201d smears, his office deftly wrecked the media, getting out ahead of the non-story in a way that should be replicated anytime woke nonsense rears its ugly head. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not forwarding a comment request this silly to Tim,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/tim-burtons-wednesday-called-racist-for-casting-black-actors-as-bullies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Mike Simpson, a representative for Burton, who also directed a few episodes of the series. \u201cHowever, apparently Daylight Savings Time is racist,\u201d Simpson reportedly added with a link to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/25\/health\/racial-inequities-sleep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN article<\/a>, which argues that black and brown people don\u2019t sleep as well because of \u201chistorical and persistent forms of structural racism,\u201d and therefore that changing the clocks leads to \u201cadverse health consequences\u201d for them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Warning: light spoilers ahead.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If critics would spend more time being viewers and less time being victims, however, they would soon see the main villains in the series turn out to be white.\u201cWednesday\u201d is titled after the lead character and oldest Addams Family daughter, Wednesday Addams, played by former Disney star Jenna Ortega. Ortega\u2019s character is an adolescent oddball who has blossoming psychic powers. She attends \u201cNevermore Academy,\u201d a school dedicated to educating \u201coutcast\u201d children with different magical abilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevermore Academy,\u201d by its very mission, should be an inclusive utopia, but Wednesday quickly learns from her blonde and bubbly werewolf roommate, Enid, that the school is just as cliquey and socially ostracizing as any other high school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s lead black character, and the academy\u2019s queen bee and bully, is Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday), a siren with the ability to manipulate people via her magical powers of persuasion. Initially, Bianca is controlling and cruel to her classmates. Later in the series, though, we learn that Bianca doesn\u2019t actually want to manipulate others and escaped to Nevermore because her mother was pressuring her into joining a cult of siren online scammers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the series progresses, it becomes apparent that Bianca is misunderstood and insecure \u2014 not a magic version of Regina George from \u201cMean Girls.\u201d Bianca also bonds with the second black character in question, Lucas Walker, who has a more minor role as another local bully. In the end, both Bianca and Lucas have satisfying character arcs and team up with Wednesday to play integral roles in defeating the show\u2019s main bad guy. In the final episode of the series, Wednesday, Bianca, Lucas, and their friends fight three villains \u2014 all of whom are white.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another shocking part of the \u201cracism\u201d accusations is that \u201cWednesday\u201d does plenty to appease the woke left. The evilest character in the show is a prejudiced Pilgrim who is resurrected from the dead to kill all the outcast children at Nevermore. The very idea of a sinister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who actually watched &#8216;Wednesday&#8217; can see that the &#8216;racism&#8217; accusations are ridiculous and performative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1759947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}