Lucasfilm’s
firing of Gina Carano may go down as one of the more 'textbook'
examples of public relations blunders. This past week the studio and
its umbrella company Disney detached from Carano, following the latest
in a series of social media posts which betrayed the political
incorrectness of the former MMA fighter.
Carano
– who had been portraying rebel-turned-mercenary Cara Dune on the hit
Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian – had shared the following on
her Instagram account:
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?
Do
note that at no point does Miss Carano refer to Republicans,
conservatives, or any other specific ideology. She merely made an
observation about history: something often rhyming like poetry, as
George Lucas himself noted.............
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