‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Fired for Controversial Social Media Posts - she "won't be working on any star wars projects in the future"

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‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Under Fire for Controversial Social Media Posts

UPDATE: Lucasfilm fired Gina Carano on Wednesday night after the “Mandalorian” star shared several controversial social media posts. Carano, who plays Cara Dune on both seasons of Disne…
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‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Under Fire for Controversial Social Media Posts​

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Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on both seasons of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian,” garnered backlash on social media Wednesday after sharing several controversial posts on her Instagram story.

Carano shared the posts on her story late Tuesday night. One of the posts she shared compared today’s divided political climate to Nazi Germany.

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,” the post, which was originally made on a different Instagram account, read.

Another photo on Carano’s story featured a person with several cloth masks covering their entire face and head. The caption said “Meanwhile in California.”

Both posts were removed from Carano’s Instagram story Wednesday afternoon. Other posts, including a quote saying “Expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is fucking wild” and one saying “Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself,” remained.

Many people on Twitter began using the hashtag #FireGinaCarano, tagging accounts for Disney, Disney Plus, “Star Wars” and Lucasfilm and requesting that Carano be dropped from “The Mandalorian.”

Carano has courted social media controversy before, previously sharing misinformation about mask wearing and voter fraud. In November 2020, she made light of people including their preferred pronouns on social media by adding “beep/bop/boop” to her Twitter bio, which many fans called out as transphobic. Carano later removed the words after she said she spoke to her “Mandalorian” co-star Pedro Pascal. “He helped me understand why people were putting them in their bios. I didn’t know before but I do now. I won’t be putting them in my bio but good for all you who choose to. I stand against bullying, especially the most vulnerable & [support] freedom to choose,” she wrote at the time.

Representatives for Carano and Disney did not respond to Variety’s request for comment.
 
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💗Bitchstopher Columbitch💗 said:
While it is autistic for the PC police to throw a fit over her posts, the way she equated race and political beliefs chafes my butt because it's that sort of thinking that leads to genocide. A Jew can't stop being a Jew but someone's political opinion can change, ya know?


Were any produced? I'd buy one.
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I think they were?

Yeah this people are petty as fuck
 
ScreamFace said:
They're now cancelling action figures which were going to be produced of her character.

This is the clown world, they are only cancelling them because they know people would have bought them all, given them money in protest over her firing.
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Sucks for her but at the same time I need a goddamn Ming Na action figure. Like.....I've always wanted one even that Marvel show she did.
 
I'm just here to admire how Gina Carano Jew-Jitsu'd Disney into firing her when obviously she had a safe landing spot lined up the VERY NEXT DAY to make movies with Ben Shapiro, DailyWire, and Co.

She gets the publicity AND the money AND the sympathy card all in one trifecta. That's a pretty good racket, right there.
 
It's an interesting tactic of how the cancel mob swarm around, creating consensus on how terrible someone is by just repeating the same slurs. It's probably a function of the cancel mob to make it harder for her to be uncancelled.
 
💗Bitchstopher Columbitch💗 said:
While it is autistic for the PC police to throw a fit over her posts, the way she equated race and political beliefs chafes my butt because it's that sort of thinking that leads to genocide. A Jew can't stop being a Jew but someone's political opinion can change, ya know?
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Is it not possible to equate them depending on context? Her point is that in both cases, tactics of public dehumanization are done and lead to violence, expulsion from normal life, hate mobs. Ethnicity(1) isn't the same as political belief and she never said it was. She said these tactics are wrong and used an example that most of society would agree with to show that. There's nothing anti-Semitic about her argument that I can see.

Also, this thread needs at least one gif of Ms. Carrano.
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(1). Jewish is not a race whatever Muslims and Zionists like to pretend it is. Ashkenazi Jews are just Western Europeans - they're no more the descendents of Old Testament Israelites than anyone else.
 
Overly Serious said:
Is it not possible to equate them depending on context? Her point is that in both cases, tactics of public dehumanization are done and lead to violence, expulsion from normal life, hate mobs. Ethnicity(1) isn't the same as political belief and she never said it was. She said these tactics are wrong and used an example that most of society would agree with to show that. There's nothing anti-Semitic about her argument that I can see.

Also, this thread needs at least one gif of Ms. Carrano.
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(1). Jewish is not a race whatever Muslims and Zionists like to pretend it is. Ashkenazi Jews are just Western Europeans - they're no more the descendents of Old Testament Israelites than anyone else.
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I think it may be okay to publicly dehumanize certain groups like member of actual terrorist organizations because there's nothing forcing them to enable or take part in activities like bombings. Can you imagine a world where zoosadists aren't shamed? It's just dumb for the media to treat run of the mill Republicans like those guys.

If I remember correctly ashkenazim have a bit of middle eastern DNA that separates them from the rest of the Euro gene pool, but it is true they're mostly European.
 
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Overly Serious said:
(1). Jewish is not a race whatever Muslims and Zionists like to pretend it is. Ashkenazi Jews are just Western Europeans - they're no more the descendents of Old Testament Israelites than anyone else.
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That's a very American view of Jewishness, especially given the strong historical tendency by Jews to avoid assimilation. There are very clear genetic differences between Jews and neighboring peoples, and most Jewish ethnic groups tend to share a genetic link based off distant common ancestry from the historical Hebrew/Israelite populations in Judah. That's not to say Jews are completely ethnically distinct from their neighboring populations, but the idea that Ashkenazis are merely ethnic Europeans is as absurd as saying that Jews are an entirely separate racial group.
 
Doomcock posts the same shit about star trek too. He always has an "inside source" that says the star trek franchise is collapsing, investors are pissed, the next season is going to be the last one, etc. all while CBS continues pumping out shitty new star trek series apace. I don't really understand how they can keep doing it either, but it's pretty clear doomcuck doesn't know anything.

I find it highly suspicious she signed a new movie contract the next day, that makes me think this was all pre-planned. I suppose she could have simply seen it coming and had this on the table already, but it feels off.
 
melty said:
I find it highly suspicious she signed a new movie contract the next day, that makes me think this was all pre-planned. I suppose she could have simply seen it coming and had this on the table already, but it feels off.
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My guess is she’s known for a while. They didn’t announce her getting a spin off— just the spin off itself— on Investors Day back in December.
 
They're in something of a bind because of the fact that Dune is paired with Greef Karga due to residing on the same planet at the moment. They could kill her offscreen, but Dune was apparently created specifically for Carano. I cannot see a recast working.
 
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