Gina Carano is 'moved to tears' after judge REJECTS Disney's motion to dismiss her lawsuit over Mandalorian firing

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[algore]

Gina Carano said she was 'moved to tears' after a judge ruled that her lawsuit against Disney can proceed, after the company tried to have it dismissed.

The actress, 42, sued the mega-entertainment brand for discrimination in February 2024, with the assistance of Elon Musk, over her 2021 firing from the Star Wars series Mandalorian.

Carano had played Cara Dune for the first two seasons of the hit show, which streams on Disney+. She was fired after she compared the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany to conservatives in modern America in a social media post.

In April, Disney argued it had a First Amendment right to fire Gina after she posted tweets that were out-of-step with the trans-rights movement, and an image the company claims was controversial as it pertained to the Holocaust.

She also refused to signal support for transgender rights on her public social media profiles, with which Disney apparently took issue.

According to her suit, the conglomerate forced her to sit through a 90-minute Zoom meeting with officials from GLAAD after she wrote 'boop/bop/beep' in her Twitter profile, instead of taking seriously the assignment of identifying her pronouns publicly.

'Carano's presence as a prominent actor on 'The Mandalorian' interfered with Disney's choice not to produce a show associated with her beliefs,' they wrote.

The actress additionally alleged that the company discriminated against her on the basis of sex, citing the fact that Disney took no action after male actors Pedro Pascal and Mark Hamill posted material comparing followers and supporters of President Donald Trump to Nazis.

Disney argued that the standard it applied to Carano doesn't matter.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: carano; disneygroomers; disneygrooming; elonmusk; ginacarano; groomer; grooming; mandalorian; markhamill; pedropascal; starwars

[algore]

I had never heard of her, but my kids were very upset when she was fired.

[Steely Tom]

Apparently, Elon Musk is paying for her case against Disney.

[Williams]

She is very nice and a very nice character on the show.

Another example of wonderful tolerant liberals hurting someone.

[rktman]

As an aside, her family owns Ceasers entertainment casinos.

[ConservativeMind]

Companies are not citizens.

Period.

[rktman]

See post 4 this thread.

[Billthedrill]

She didn’t kiss the ring. In Hollywood you have to kiss the ring.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Got to meet her several years ago, this was well before she worked on Star Wars at Disney. Very nice young lady.

[gibsonguy]

Fla or CA? The Daily Mail website is a mess l hate going there.

[moovova]

I volunteer to dab the tears off her cheeks.

And her face too...

[pburiak]

Interesting, I just knew her dad was a backup QB for the Cowboys in the 1980’s.

[Political Junkie Too]

California. It's the corporate executives.

Disney's problem is that their top-billed star Pedro Pascal did essentially the same thing, only he compared the Holocaust to the right, not the left as Carano did.

He wasn't fired or threatened in any way. Disney's excuse was it doesn't matter how they treated what others did, they didn't like what Carano did. They argued that they have a right of free association and they didn't want to continue associating with her, even though Pascal also made Holocaust comparisons.

-PJ

[joshua c]

watch haywire

she was great in that

[RayChuang88]

This case could be devastating for the Walt Disney Company because with the discovery phase now going ahead, we're going to find out quite a bit on how the Reimagine Tomorrow DEI initiative effectively ruined the company because of its excessive emphasis on "woke" politics in movies and TV shows.

[CatOwner]

I remember her appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson at a time when she competed in mixed martial arts.

[gibsonguy]

Well if it’s CA I don’t like her chances. If she wins it gets appealed and at some point it ends up in front of a rat judge and it’s game over.

[Hildy]

She was fired after she compared the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany to conservatives in modern America in a social media post.

HUH?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Gina Carano CRYING over a rejection to dismiss her lawsuit? That’s wrecking my image of her.

[Political Junkie Too]

She wasn't talking about the concentration camps, she was talking about the Hitler Youth movement of the early-1930s when the Nazis were condoning the harassment of Jews by their neighbors.

-PJ

[sphinx]

Gina did more than that. She profaned the the left’s holiest of holies. In a casual social media context, the subject of preferred pronouns came up. Gina, who was at the time portraying one of the most popular characters on a Disney Star Wars show, listed her pronouns as “Bippity boppity boo.”

Left social media instantly denounced her as transphobic and hateful. Disney kowtowed to its masters and fired her.