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

‘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​

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 How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,” the post, which was originally made on a different Instagram account, read.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.

 

[Salubrious]

but someone's political opinion can change, ya know?

Not according to the woke mob. In fact, if you step out of line, the woke mob gets to determine you are an alt-right hate QAnon bigot, and you aren't allowed to say that you aren't.

So not only can you choose your own gender, but you CAN'T even choose your own political affiliation once they've given you the Scarlett Letter.

 

[Desu Vult]

Eh it's not like Carano was ever going to have a serious Hollywood career anyway. She's a shit actress, as well as not particularly conventionally hot. She was always going to be extremely niche.

At this point, getting herself cancelled might actually have been the rational, smart move. You have 50% of potential customers on the Left and 50% on the Right. The Left side has literally every thot in Hollywood competing for their money. The Right side has, well, Gina Carano...

 

[milk]

I wonder how Niel Druckman feels about this. On the one side, she satisfies his lust for muslcular women, on the other hand she has opposite political thoughts to him.

 

[kadoink]

I wonder how Niel Druckman feels about this. On the one side, she satisfies his lust for muslcular women, on the other hand she has opposite political thoughts to him.

He's not capable of feeling anything from other people, thats why he motion captured himself having sex with himself.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

The Left side has literally every thot in Hollywood competing for their money.

But the Left doesn't buy or watch shit. Ghostbusters 2016 would have made infinite money if they did.

 

[Oats12345]

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.

I agree it's hard to recast a character who was made for a certain actor. Also I'm kind of sad you won't see Gina and Carl Weathers on screen anymore they were a good pair. Also I thought it was adorable a couple of mouths ago. They were tweeting at each other and really should their friendship.

I got to say I'm impressed how big this has gotten

https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-writer-compares-gina-caranos-firing-to-hollywood-blacklisting-communists-fans-start-petition-to-get-her-rehired

 

[The Valeyard]

Gina Carano Reveals Disney And Lucasfilm Tried To Force Her To Apologize To The Pronoun Gang (Archive)

Former The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune on the show, recently revealed Disney and Lucasfilm attempted to force her to apologize to the pronoun gang before the second season of The Mandalorian debuted on Disney+.

Carano spoke with former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, where she revealed, “Earlier on last year before The Mandalorian came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage.”

The actress continued, “I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio.”

Weiss then detailed that Lucasfilm punished her by excluding her “from all press and promotion for the show.”

Carano stated, “That was heart-breaking, but I didn’t want to take away from the hard work of everyone who worked on the project, so I said ok.”

“That was the last time I was contacted about any type of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm,” she added.

Carano then revealed she found out she was fired from The Mandalorian over social media, “I found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.”

Carano’s statement is revealing. It means that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and The Mandalorian Executive Producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni didn’t have an ounce of human decency within them to even give Carano a call and let her know she had been let go.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Young Rippa has a point here and it's time to put up or shut up when Carano makes a movie with the new guys. You have money to support people who hate you like Disney so you have money to support people who don't hate you.

Tl:dr
Buy a copy when it comes out

He says a bunch of shit about becoming influencers as well which is interesting. Make a social media account and start actually engaging in the culture war. I guess actually starting to fight back is a strategy.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Her acting was atrocious in the show. Like it was very cringeworthy especially compared to all the other actors that she was working with. And no, you can't compare it with Pedro's. His last fucking scene was masterclass.

I daresay her acting was worse than Hayden and Jake, although that particular fault lies with Lucas. Its ironic that her literal wiki lists her filmography as wooden or stilted.

If she just shut up and not tweeted she wouldn't have been fired. But this is what happens when a wamen doesn't know when to fold em.

 

[Oats12345]

Gina Carano Reveals Disney And Lucasfilm Tried To Force Her To Apologize To The Pronoun Gang (Archive)

You know good for her not to backing down. I'm tired of seeing people bow down to mentally ill troons on Twitter. Know wonder way disney was trying get raid of her for mouths. She wasn't going to kiss up to the SJW crowd.

 

[Overly Serious]

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.

It's not a "very American view of Jewishness". I'm not American and actually I originally got my views on this from an Israeli academic. But I recognize your name - we've had this conversation before. I recommend anyone interested in the subject matter read The Invention of the Jewish People by Schlmo Sand. He's a professor at Tel Aviv university and the book is pretty well-researched. Short version is that there was a major wave of proselytising around 800-1100 AD with many, many converts to Judaism. And the whole "descendants of the ancient Israelites" is largely a crafted narrative to build an Israeli national identity. It's not that Ashkenazi jews don't have some lineage from older historical peoples, it's that they don't really have any more than anybody else.

And when you reply, as you inevitably will, can you just clarify if you are (a) Jewish (b) Israeli or American and (c) do you do religious Jewish activties? Just curious. From a Goy King to a Soy King.

 

[soy_king]

It's not a "very American view of Jewishness". I'm not American and actually I originally got my views on this from an Israeli academic. But I recognize your name - we've had this conversation before. I recommend anyone interested in the subject matter read The Invention of the Jewish People by Schlmo Sand. He's a professor at Tel Aviv university and the book is pretty well-researched. Short version is that there was a major wave of proselytising around 800-1100 AD with many, many converts to Judaism. And the whole "descendants of the ancient Israelites" is largely a crafted narrative to build an Israeli national identity. It's not that Ashkenazi jews don't have some lineage from older historical peoples, it's that they don't really have any more than anybody else.

And when you reply, as you inevitably will, can you just clarify if you are (a) Jewish (b) Israeli or American and (c) do you do religious Jewish activties? Just curious. From a Goy King to a Soy King.

Yes, I remember now, we have had this discussion before. Once again, I remember that your arguments are essentially based on the ideas of a single academic who's generally on the Far left of the Israeli spectrum, and who of course would take the position of a fabricated Jewish nature, as it would justify his strong Pro-Palestinian bias. Even assuming, however, that there was a "wave of proselytization" in this period, that doesn't explain the growth of Jewish cultures in areas where such proselytization would have been actively discouraged and legally forbidden, such as in the Islamic territories of Al Andalus, Egypt, North Africa, etc. Secondly, I never said that Ashkenazis were entirely unrelated to their neighboring peoples, but that there is archaeogenetic evidence demonstrating a descent from about 400 or so Jewish men who lived about 2000 years ago. Finally, for much of their history, Ashkenazis actively and aggressively married solely within their own group, which creates a distinctive genetic history that is in fact separate from their neighbors. You can see this with the disproportionate frequency of almost forty or so genetic diseases within the Ashkenazi population, the most famous of which is Tay Sachs.

As to my identity, I've never hidden the fact that I am a second-generation Russian American Jew whose parents immigrated to the US from the Soviet Union. I do not practice my ancestral religion, but if this is supposed to be some sort of own I fail to see how.

 

[Mrs Paul]

waiting for Anderson Cooper's inevitable firing and blacklisting for this which happened the same day... oh right.View attachment 1913053

I think there's a wee difference here, no offense. Whatever your feelings on Cooper or Carano, he was comparing Rwanda to an event where a mob rioted and attempted to overtake the capitol building which resulted in the deaths of five people. Carano was comparing the Holocaust to being criticized for her political views. Not quite the same thing. A more apt comparison MIGHT be the McCarthy era, but definitely not Nazi Germany.

People get shit for their political beliefs all the freaking time -- the current climate is nothing new. "This guy eats babies and hangs the toilet paper the wrong way!!!"

Should she have been fired? I don't know, maybe more was going on behind the scenes. Quite honestly, it's probably a PR thing, or they're worried about losing their sponsers. That's usually what it comes down to: $$$$$$$

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I think there's a wee difference here, no offense. Whatever your feelings on Cooper or Carano, he was comparing Rwanda to an event where a mob rioted and attempted to overtake the capitol building which resulted in the deaths of five people. Carano was comparing the Holocaust to being criticized for her political views. Not quite the same thing. A more apt comparison MIGHT be the McCarthy era, but definitely not Nazi Germany.

People get shit for their political beliefs all the freaking time -- the current climate is nothing new. "This guy eats babies and hangs the toilet paper the wrong way!!!"

Should she have been fired? I don't know, maybe more was going on behind the scenes. Quite honestly, it's probably a PR thing, or they're worried about losing their sponsers. That's usually what it comes down to: $$$$$$$

She was pointing out (accurately) that the Nazi's victims were dehumanized so thoroughly that the population at large, ie, not the police or military, but ordinary people, were the first to attack and harass their Jewish neighbors; thus, when rounded up for deportation no one complained but instead applauded the Nazis for doing so.

That's how tyranny begins. The same thing happened in the Bolshevik USSR and during the Cultural Revolution in China.

She's right. I don't believe she should have been fired but I also think she should have stayed off Twitter because Twitter is cancer.

 

[Oats12345]

She was pointing out (accurately) that the Nazi's victims were dehumanized so thoroughly that the population at large, ie, not the police or military, but ordinary people, were the first to attack and harass their Jewish neighbors; thus, when rounded up for deportation no one complained but instead applauded the Nazis for doing so.

That's how tyranny begins. The same thing happened in the Bolshevik USSR and during the Cultural Revolution in China.

She's right. I don't believe she should have been fired but I also think she should have stayed off Twitter because Twitter is cancer.

I know another actress who plays on a show that I like who's a conservative and surpported Trump as well. Intresting enough she hasn't been on Twitter since 2018. I don't blame her honeslty.

She did tweet once in 2020, but it was noting political.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Twitter, and social media as a whole, has turned out to be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity and has had a massively negative impact on how we interact with each other as people.

My advice to everyone is to just get off the platforms now. It ain't fucking worth it.

 

[RollerGator]

I hope this project they're working on is just her in a leotard keeping Ben Shapiro in a scissor hold for an hour and thirty minutes .

 

[make_it_so]

I hope this project they're working on is just her in a leotard keeping Ben Shapiro in a scissor hold for an hour and thirty minutes .

For you, good sir.

 

[X Prime]

She was pointing out (accurately) that the Nazi's victims were dehumanized so thoroughly that the population at large, ie, not the police or military, but ordinary people, were the first to attack and harass their Jewish neighbors; thus, when rounded up for deportation no one complained but instead applauded the Nazis for doing so.

That's how tyranny begins. The same thing happened in the Bolshevik USSR and during the Cultural Revolution in China.

She's right. I don't believe she should have been fired but I also think she should have stayed off Twitter because Twitter is cancer.

That whole "deaths of five people" thing should probably have tipped you off that that poster has a history of intellectually dishonest hair-splitting and reframing in favor of the Democrat talking point du jour.

They know perfectly well the truthfulness of what you are saying, in other words.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

See here's my response to "She said THIS on Twitter".

"I don't give a shit."

I don't give a shit what anybody says on Twitter. Its a shit platform that we have collectively put WAY too much stock into and we need to knock that shit off. '

If you begin a diatribe with "X said on Twitter" I will immediately lose interest and ignore you.