Posted on 02/11/2021 9:34:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Controversy has erupted over a Hollywood double-standard, after two stars of Disney+'s The Mandalorian made Nazi and Holocaust analogies, for which Lucasfilm fired the conservative one.
In the first instance, Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal made a now-deleted Instagram post in November likening Trump supporters losing the 2020 election to the Confederacy and Nazi Germany losing in 1865 and 1945.
In June of 2018, Pascal compared Jews in a Nazi concentration camp to 'children in cages' (built by Obama).
Yet, this week Mandalorian actress Gina Carano - who played former Rebel Alliance soldierCara Dune - was fired from the show and dropped by her agency after she shared a TikTok post comparing the current divided political climate to the treatment of Jewish people in pre-WWII Germany, saying that "the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews."
"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"
Carano previously drew criticism for mocking pronouns, putting "boop/bop/beep" in her Twitter bio.
Gina Carano putting boop/bop/beep in her name after the Twitter mob was angry she wouldn't put her pronouns in her bio will always be legendary pic.twitter.com/fRFUGmYLUY — Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 11, 2021
"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," said a Lucasfilm spokesperson in a statement. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."
Carano also mocked wearing masks amid the pandemic, which received over 40,000 'likes' on Twitter.
pic.twitter.com/yJnnKVjume — Gina Carano 🕯 (@ginacarano) November 15, 2020
In addition to Lucasfilm firing her, Carano was also dropped as a client by her agency, UTA, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"They have been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and today was the final straw," said one source with knowledge of the situation.
According to sources, Lucasfilm planned to unveil Carano as the star of her own Disney+ series during a December investor's day presentation but scrapped those plans following her November tweets. Multiple Mandalorian spinoffs are in the works from executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, including Rangers of the New Republic, which could have potentially starred Carano. -The Hollywood Reporter.
The hypocrisy of firing Carano while keeping Pascal for the same thing has not gone unnoticed:
The hypocrisy is the point. pic.twitter.com/JzZqXtVrVG — Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 11, 2021
#CancelDisneyPlus is the number 1 trend nationwide as fan backlash to the firing of @GinaCarano continues pic.twitter.com/CQ5TACowOO — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 11, 2021
Comparisons to Nazi Germany are okay with Lucasfilm so long as they’re used to attack the right @ginacarano wasn’t fired for that post — it was a purely tribal culling and they’d clearly been looking for a way to get rid of her for a long time pic.twitter.com/H6jvsxcH3F — Amber Athey (@amber_athey) February 11, 2021
Carano previously drew criticism for mocking pronouns, putting “boop/bop/beep” in her Twitter bio.
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But we’re supposed to take seriously Zer, Zee, and Zed or whatever. God I despise the leftist mob.
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She made an apt and accurate comparison.
She denigrated NO ONE directly, certainly not Jews.
For speaking the truth she had to be banished.
We have been seeing it more and more — businesses using jobs to silence conservatives while allowing leftists to spout any and all hatred they wish.
THIS is the new pogrom — it starts with jobs which makes people reliant on the government which then silences them. Then kills them.
bidet’s Amerikkka.
She is now a hero..she’ll have her own podcast or talk in 6 months and be on Tucker Carlson every night if she wants
“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?” ~ someone much smarter than me
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Mrs. rktman’s family(mother at 4, uncle at 6, aunt at 13 and Oma) all Christians spent years in a naughtZee relocation camp in Yugoslavia since they didn’t bend to hitler’s will. Not just Jews were abused. Not taking away from the horrors, just a point.
Would love to see some leftist Antifa type confront Gina on her views. He’d be placing classified ads in nearby towns in search of his teeth...
As a former MMA fighter, I’d pay money to see her kick that nancyboy’s ass.
“Multiple Mandalorian spinoffs are in the works...”
*Were* in the works. They won’t have an audience for any spinoffs now, because the Fandom Menace will have to put Disney in its place again.
Sorry Filoni and Favreau, but if you want the audience to stand with you, you’ve got to be willing to take a stand yourselves.
Umm the “someone” who said that quote is a neo-nazi pedophile.
They cannot have the truth out there.
I don't have any illusions that a conservative boycott will change anything. But I will stop watching all that anyway just because I can't tolerate leftist bullying.
“before it would truly have an effect on the show continuing”
The Mandalorian will continue, but that’s a separate issue from whether Disney can justify multiple spinoffs from the show. Spinoffs require not just enough audience to support the budget of a show, but a surplus of audience such that it might justify multiple other shows. There’s no way that is going to happen now.
I suppose we may see season 1 of a few spinoffs if they were already in production and the money was spent. Beyond that, don’t get your hopes up.
“I don’t have any illusions that a conservative boycott will change anything.”
I’m not talking about a conservative boycott though. This will trigger a general boycott of the Star Wars fandom (aka “The Fandom Menace”). They’ve already been talking about it for months because it was obvious Disney was just waiting to make a move like this.
They made her point better than she could.
You're right about the spinoffs -- the legs just won't be there for them. It's too bad, because Carano as that character was really good. A female soldier who was actually believable in that role, and knew how to act as if she'd experienced actual violence on some place other than a movie set. The contrast between her and the varies 110 pound girls trying to pull off the "warrior" vibe on other shows was really stark.
Disney deserves every ounce of blowback for this we can muster.
Disney needs a history lesson. What the hell do they think Joesph Goebbels’s job was? It was to continually feed propaganda to the German people, so they’d hate anyone that was different from them. Gypsies, Jews, Communists, Homosexuals, the Polish, lazy people, and any other “undesirable” that the Third Reich deemed unclean. That’s how they got Germans to snitch on their neighbors, and the same $hit is happening today.
Disney Studios are the Fascists of today.
“Umm the “someone” who said that quote is a neo-nazi pedophile.”
....does that somehow make the statement untrue?
It certainly could make the “someone much smarter than me” part of the post untrue. At least I hope it would.
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