‘Amish Mafia’ Season 4 News: Show Being Referred To As ‘Amish-Sploitation’ Ahead Of New Episodes Airing [VIDEO]
Though Season 4 of Discovery's Amish Mafia has not yet received a premiere date, more calls are being made to potentially keep the show entirely off the air, as it is now being called a form of "Amish-sploitation."
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According to Lancaster Online, filmmaker Mary Haverstick has begun a campaign to get the show, as well as others that have been deemed as exploiting the peaceful Amish community, off the air as they are painting a negative and inaccurate image of a peaceful and religious people.
Haverstick has started both a website (respectamish.org) and a Facebook page to help her cause, and says she has had enough of the exploitation.
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"No religious group in America should have to endure a barrage of 'reality' television filled with criminal acts and non-stop images of their youth in violation of their beliefs. Neighbors are now speaking out and saying this is not the Amish community we know and bears little resemblance to reality," an introduction to the respect Amish site reads.
In a June 13 interview with a local news station, Haverstick also explained how the acts depicted on the shows -- which includes Amish Mafia, Breaking Amish and the as-of-yet unaired Amish Haunting -- are a form of bigotry because they are putting a negative spin on the lifestyle of the real Amish -- a lifestyle which is governed by the group's strict religion.
"You can't put shows on like this about Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical [people]...it's just plain wrong," she said. "I mean, you just can't do it and it would be seen for what it is, which is bigoted. It is bigoted and prejudice."
Though Haverstick's movement is new, producers of Mafia have hinted that the show would possibly not be returning for a fourth season, after the Season 3 finale saw the cast refusing to continue filming. However, the show is expected to return after the cast's lawyer said they had begun filming new episodes.
