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Lucasfilm Drops ‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Following Offensive Social Media Posts
Variety ^ | February 10, 2021 | Daniel Holloway

Posted on 02/10/2021 7:59:57 PM PST by EdnaMode

Gina Carano is “not currently employed by Lucasfilm,” the company said in a statement Wednesday after controversy erupted over “The Mandalorian” star’s social media posts.

“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

Carano shared several offensive posts on her Instagram stories Tuesday night, including one that likened contemporary political differences to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children,” Carano wrote Instagram. “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 originated on a different Instagram account.

In another post, Carano shared a photo of a person wearing multiple cloth masks with the caption, “Meanwhile in California…”

Both posts were gone from Carano’s Instagram by mid-day Wednesday. Other posts, including one in which Carano wrote “Jeff Epstein didn’t kill himself,” remained.

The hashtag #FireGinaCarano began circulating on Twitter Wednesday in response to her posts. Many users tagged Lucasfilm and corporate parent Disney in their posts.

Carano is no stranger to controversy on social media. In November she was criticized for mocking people who specify preferred pronouns when she updated her Twitter bio with “beep/bop/boop,” which she later removed.

In December, Lucasfilm announced “Rangers of the New Republic,” a direct spinoff of “The Mandalorian” that seemed to suggest a path for her character Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who had become a Marshall for the New Republic on the show. Lucasfilm has not yet announced a cast for the new show, however.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: anticonservativebias; bideneffect; bidenvoters; blacklist; blacklisting; cancelculture; caradune; carano; censorship; courage; culturalmarxism; despotism; disney; disneyplus; dnctalkingpoints; freedomofspeech; ginacarano; heilbiden; hollywood; hollywoodblacklist; kathleenkennedy; kennedy; linguisticgymnastics; lucasfilm; mandalorian; mando; starwars; stormtroopers; themandalorian; waronfreedomofspeech; waronspeech
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To: adorno

But politics is in to them. Insidious subliminal ways.


61 posted on 02/10/2021 9:10:58 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: EdnaMode

What is wrong about her historical accurate analogy?


62 posted on 02/10/2021 9:19:25 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: EdnaMode
Cancel Culture Strikes Back.
63 posted on 02/10/2021 9:20:49 PM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: HamiltonJay

She was shining a light on the demonization and purge of people on the right with an apt analogy.

The leftist insurgency can’t have their hired help pulling back the curtain.


64 posted on 02/10/2021 9:22:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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To: TigersEye

She also posted a quote from Thomas Sowell a few days ago.


65 posted on 02/10/2021 9:26:47 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: EdnaMode

Very true her post is. Just the other day remember the la.times column woman saying even though trump loving nice neighbors did her a favor she basically still hated them. There ya go!


66 posted on 02/10/2021 9:27:16 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: linMcHlp
I guess Dizzyknee finds the actual truth abhorrent. Maybe they've been in the fantasy biz too long. What Ms. Carano wrote was unfortunately true and I get exactly what she was saying. Widespread bigotry starts at home, not with a government. Because of their inherent power, governments can greatly amplify bigotry such as antisemitism, but that sentiment started in the homes of antisemites. Too bad the fascist Dizzyknee canned her for simply telling the truth. Walt Disney was said to be an antisemite himself.

Disney is now firmly on my stay-away list. They can keep their stinking social justice films.

67 posted on 02/10/2021 9:33:50 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EdnaMode

The left in this country is treating us the same way they used to treat blacks.


68 posted on 02/10/2021 9:34:25 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: montag813

European anti-semitism was not a 20th century invention.


69 posted on 02/10/2021 9:35:51 PM PST by 31R1O
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To: RandallFlagg
I'm sorry... I'm new to this and trying to catch up...

I thought you weren't supposed to take the helmets off of the Mandalorians.

-PJ

70 posted on 02/10/2021 9:36:56 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Can’t be having that!
Quoting a conservative black man is really damaging to “the cause.”


71 posted on 02/10/2021 9:43:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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To: 31R1O
European anti-semitism was not a 20th century invention.

Jews occupied positions of great prominence in pre-Nazi Germany. Doctors, lawyers, political leaders, professors, Nobel Prize winners representing Germany. In a few short years the people accepted the complete removal of Jews from all those areas of civic life, and then their un-personing through the Nuremberg Laws.

72 posted on 02/10/2021 9:54:57 PM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: pangaea6
Very true her post is.

Well-played, sir!

73 posted on 02/10/2021 10:00:08 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: EdnaMode

Defending the oppressed or making jokes is now “offensive” enough to our authoritarian overlords to cancel people’s careers over. The current Fascists with the power in the US really, really hate being reminded that they are the oppressors. At least all non-authoritarians know which studio’s films to never bother seeing.

And remember folks, the leftists/Dems constantly attacked Trump as a Nazi for wanting our immigration laws enforced, nothing even resembling the mass oppression of political dissenters going on now. If that sort of comparison is denegrating people of the Jewish religion than leftists/Dems are the most guilty of that of anyone and should be firing themselves if that had any principles whatsoever.


74 posted on 02/10/2021 10:00:46 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: csvset
Can’t say I know who she is. She is correct about Epstein not killing himself.

She was a successful MMA fighter, until she took up acting.


75 posted on 02/10/2021 10:08:59 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: linMcHlp
While my wife and I disagree on how to get there in some political issues, when she came to tell me about the firing (was she fired? I'm still unclear if LucasFilm is the umbrella or the employer for the cast of The Mandalorian), I went and looked at what she said.

Then I handed my phone to my wife to read.

It's truth. It is a lesson of history that if you sweep under the carpet simply becomes something that will be repeated. It IS something that's repeated right now.. ‘cept now they say ‘the 1%’.

And that's the funny part about the story; the author realizes it's stupid, it's cancel culture run amok, and points out other ‘scandals’ to try to make that straw appear far more weighty than it was.

She offended the transgender community with her chosen pronouns of beep, bop and boop. So what, HER choice is now invalid because it doesn't conform to some group's wishes? Why can't she identify as a member of beep? If bop wants everyone to refer to boop as such, who the hell is anyone on any ground to dismiss bop's wishes if they want to also do the dance of everyone should be able to choose their pronouns and identity? There could be a whole group of beep out there waiting for someone to take a bold stand and bop is leading the way!

It all boils down to one thing; liberals want to identify the conversation and anything that isn't exactly matching their talking points is a racist or homophobe or whatever the fear of transgenderism is. It's hate speech, because we don't currently support it. No matter what bop thinks or identifies as.

76 posted on 02/10/2021 10:29:24 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: HamiltonJay
what exactly was offensive???

The same thing that always offends leftists......the truth.

77 posted on 02/10/2021 10:40:31 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: bagster

Holy chit Batman...

I’ll take the Gina salad...with lots of dressing .. and stuff!!!!

Like....now!!!


78 posted on 02/10/2021 10:46:59 PM PST by pacificus
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To: EdnaMode

how stupid do you have to be to work for the most “woke” company out there and do this? this would be like a pizza hut delivery driver telling everyone pizza causes cancer. it doesnt matter if its true or not, its bad for the company = unemployment line


79 posted on 02/10/2021 10:51:53 PM PST by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: nagant

interesting take


80 posted on 02/10/2021 10:59:03 PM PST by PCPOET7
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