Netflix's Wednesday still suffers — like the character of Gomez did over the years — from presenting Latine identity as a quirk rather than an integrated part of its main character.
Because of the ill-conceived caste system that stands for a weak metaphor for racism in the U.S., white people are re-cast as the victims of society. Wednesday's ancestor Goody seems to be a white settler. But fear not, Goody was actually a “good” settler. In one of her visions, Wednesday sees Goody being chased and punished by pilgrims for being a witch, and she declares: “I am innocent. It is you, Joseph Crackstone, that should be tried.
Instead, the viewer is presented with a white-washed, nonspecific category of “outcasts” that doesn’t discuss or engage with Indigeneity at all and, most egregiously, includes white people in the role of victims of settler colonialism. By generalizing a faceless “native people” while simultaneously inserting white characters as victims of genocide,At this point, this kind of patchy racial politics is common in popular film and TV.
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