Disney — Gina Carano Won’t Be Canceled

‘They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them,” said actress Gina Carano after being fired by Disney. Just days later, the 38-year-old former mixed-martial artist, and former Mandalorian star, announced a new project: a film starring and produced by herself in conjunction with Ben Shapiro’s recently launched film venture at the Daily Wire.

To recap, allegedly fired for “anti-Semitism,” it would be more accurate to say that Carano was fired for tweets and comments she made that had identified her as a conservative. The specific offense (and pretext for her firing) was a rather underwhelming instance of Godwin’s law (the rule that all Internet debates sooner or later lead to trite comparisons being made with Nazi Germany). Speaking of cancel culture, Carano asked, “How is [Nazi hatred of the Jews] any different from hating someone for their political views?” Previous examples of her supposed moral unfitness included her use of “boop/bop/beep” in her Twitter profile (mocking the transgender-pronouns trend), her stated belief that Epstein did not kill himself, and suggesting that “expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is f***ing wild.”

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‘They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them,” said actress Gina Carano after being fired by Disney. Just days later, the 38-year-old former mixed-martial artist, and former Mandalorian star, announced a new project: a film starring and produced by herself in conjunction with Ben Shapiro’s recently launched film venture at the Daily Wire.

To recap, allegedly fired for “anti-Semitism,” it would be more accurate to say that Carano was fired for tweets and comments she made that had identified her as a conservative. The specific offense (and pretext for her firing) was a rather underwhelming instance of Godwin’s law (the rule that all Internet debates sooner or later lead to trite comparisons being made with Nazi Germany). Speaking of cancel culture, Carano asked, “How is [Nazi hatred of the Jews] any different from hating someone for their political views?” Previous examples of her supposed moral unfitness included her use of “boop/bop/beep” in her Twitter profile (mocking the transgender-pronouns trend), her stated belief that Epstein did not kill himself, and suggesting that “expecting everyone you encounter to agree with every belief or view you hold is f***ing wild.”