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
End of the Malodorian for me
LOL...true dat.
Yeah, I’m done with it. Especially knowing the wetback in the tin can made comparable comments...and is still wearing the tin can.
I know this is just a movie clip, but I find it particularly gratifying after seeing his opinion of me as a Nazi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlrrMMqbFNE
While ironic, given the subject matter, that makes him detestable but doesn’t make him wrong.
Perhaps not, but I would hope the original poster doesn’t think that a neo-nazi pedophile is “someone much smarter” than they are.
Voltaire was a neo-nazi pedophile? Who knew!
That’s not a quote from Voltaire. It’s often misattributed to him, probably because people want to keep using the quote but don’t want to credit the neo-nazi pedophile who said it.
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