Gina Carano Fired From “The Mandalorian” Over “Abhorrent” Anti-Semitic Post

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February 11, 2021, 7:45 am*

An actress who was featured in The Mandalorian, Disney’s breakout Star Wars streaming series, was cut loose from the show yesterday after yet another in a long line of offensive incidents that had social media calling for her removal.

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Gina Carano shared a post to Instagram that’s been circulating in conservative circles, and which compares being a Trump-supporting Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust.

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“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,” it reads. “How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

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It’s an absolutely wild take — comparing the party that contains and sometimes caters to modern-day Nazis to a people that were slaughtered simply for who they were.

The actress immediately faced backlash for her views.

that moment when a transphobic, antisemitic, police bootlicker, covid denier and trump supporter plays a character who fought her whole life against oppression and tyranny. lucasfilm should be ashamed. fire her. #FireGinaCarano pic.twitter.com/IfA3ZF6RbW

— zen (@zenskywaIker) February 10, 2021

Hey Gina Carano…

If you wanna know what it was like to be a Jew in the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, I can give you my 95-year-old grandmother’s phone number.

The Nazis killed both her parents, all 6 siblings & all extended family.

She’d be happy to tell you to f*ck off

— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) February 11, 2021

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Unless Gina Carano has been “beaten in the streets” she owes every Holocaust survivor an apology for trivializing what was done to them and their families https://t.co/xTmgCbD0Hc

— Bitter Script Reader (@BittrScrptReadr) February 10, 2021

Gina Carano is really out here like “Being a nazi in 2021 is basically the same thing as being Jewish during the holocaust”. As far as bad takes go, that’s pretty high up there.

— Saige Ryan ~ BLM (@NotSaige) February 10, 2021

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If you’re not caught up on this story, Gina Carano mocked people’s preferred pronouns, mocked safety measures during a pandemic, and compared being criticized to the holocaust. She made the choice to say these things. Lucasfilm made the choice not to work with her anymore.

— Joseph Scrimshaw (@JosephScrimshaw) February 11, 2021

By the end of the day, Lucasfilm announced that Carano wasn’t employed by the company anymore “and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” phrasing it in such a way that left people wondering if she had already been fired for some of her earlier controversial remarks.

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Over the last several months, Carano has mocked mask-wearing, mocked the use of correct pronouns for transgender and non-binary people, and promoted Trump’s baseless voter fraud conspiracy theories. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, an anonymous source claimed Lucasfilm has “been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and today was the final straw.”

Prior to all the controversy she stirred up, there were rumors of her Mandalorian character getting her own show.

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*First Published: February 11, 2021, 7:39 am