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This post might not be for some people, so warning, the video below involves witches and a “Church of the Dark Night” from the popular Netflix series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”. But what stood out about this episode is how they introduce witch hunters who attack three witches known as “The Weird Sisters”. The witch hunters ride bicycles (in a previous episode), dress like missionaries with black and white shirts and name tags, and seek to destroy witches.
To me this was blatant cultural misappropriation of the dress and persona of our missionaries.
I found it kind of unsettling that they would take our missionaries and turn them into witch hunters — bad guys in the context of this show.
https://youtu.be/xB7BD4ZrD6s?t=69https://youtu.be/xB7BD4ZrD6s?t=69” class=”bbcode_url”> Interesting. This same show got into some trouble for using a statue of Satan from the church of Satan without permission.
I’m guessing that cultural appropriation isn’t something that could trigger a lawsuit so netflix might feel safe in their decision.
It looks like the series did in fact get a lawsuit over the misappropriation of the statue: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/satanic-temple-suing-netflix-sabrina.html Right. I think if the witch hunters were wearing actual LDS missionary name tags then the LDS church could sue. In a somewhat related and recent case, a famous female chess player sued netflix for defamation because a character in the show “the Queen’s gambit” referenced the plaintiff and said that the main character in the show was besting male competitors when the plaintiff had not. Only, it wasn’t true. the plaintiff had been besting male competitors for years by that chronological part of the story line.
Lesson is that name dropping an actual person or using someone’s creative work without permission caries risk.
Using characters that look and behave similar to LDS missionaries probably does not.
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