A former MMA champion, Carano was under constant scrutiny from a social media mob that took issue last August with social media posts in which she described some Black Lives Matter activists as “cowards and thug
social media mob described some BLM activists as cowards and thugs?
The Deadpool and Fast & Furious 6 star received a flood of death threats on Twitter after refusing to list her preferred pronouns in her Twitter bio. The harassment and threats were extensive. But Carano mocked those pressuring her by joking that her pronouns are “boop/bop/beep.”
taking her position / ´harrasment and threats were extensive´ mocked those pressuring her: taking her position
The calls for her firing from the Disney show escalated in November, after Carano posted a meme showing two men placing face masks over their eyes, with the caption: “BREAKING NEWS: Democratic government leaders now recommends [sic] we all wear blindfolds along with masks so we can’t see what’s really going on.”
mask wearing tweet connecting it with call for her firing
Disney has faced fire for months after the studio’s blockbuster film Mulan included in its end credits a special thank you to the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security, which is located in the northwestern Xinjiang region, where a concentration camp for Uyghur Muslims have been detained and forced into labor by the Communist Party propaganda, according to a 2018 investigation by The Wall Street Journal.
comment about Disney´s China controversy
Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Lucasfilm statement
The hashtag #FireGinaCarano was trending on Twitter earlier Wednesday and just hours later, Lucasfilm did just that.
direct connection to firing and #fireginacarano
"Beep/bop/boop has zero to do with mocking trans people (heart emoji) & (100 emoji) to do with exposing the bullying mentality of the mob that has taken over the voices of many genuine causes," she wrote in September with a gif of R2-D2. "I want people to know you can take hate with a smile. So BOOP you for misunderstanding."Variety reported that she later removed the words from her Twitter bio after speaking to her co-star Pedro Pascal, who she said "helped (her) understand why people were putting them in their bios." She then said she supports "freedom to choose."
her statement to the pronoun controversy
Carano courted controversy in fall of 2020 when she refused fans' requests to put her pronouns in her Twitter bio as a show of support for transgender people. Instead, she wrote "beep/bop/boop" in her bio, which to fans appeared to mock trans people.
pronoun controversy
She didn't delete every story she shared Wednesday, including one that repeated the conspiracy that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein didn't die by suicide.
Epstein conspiracy
She later deleted that story and another that appeared to poke fun at mask-wearing with an image of a person whose entire head was covered with masks, captioned "Meanwhile in California."
mocking mask wearing
during which an estimated six million Jewish people were murdered, and how the conditions then were similar to contemporary political divides.
context given to the offense
"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."
Lucasfilm statement
including one that compared Nazi Germany to the current political landscape
the offense
offensive social media posts,
plural + value judgement
after offensive social media posts
judgement already in headline
embraced baseless claims of voter fraud after the presidential election.
also clear stance towards her opinion about the US election ´baseless claims of voter fraud´
Ms. Carano has also mocked the use of masks and the need for vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic
clear stance towards her posts about masks and vaccines ´mocked´
She said she talked with her “Mandalorian” co-star Pedro Pascal, who “helped me understand why people were putting them in their bios.” (Mr. Pascal would later publicly support his sister, Lux Pascal, an actress who came out as transgender this week.)
also including the story of Pedro Pascal
She denied that accusation and said she was responding to people who asked her to list her pronouns, “exposing the bullying mentality of the mob that has taken over the voices of many genuine causes.”
giving room for her side of the story
(Some conservatives, who viewed her posts as a matter of free speech, countered with #CancelDisneyPlus.)
mention of conservatives viewing her posts as free speech counter-movement (#CancelDisneyPlus)
It led to thousands of complaints on social media, where many people used the hashtag #FireGinaCarano, not for the first time
talking about the social media backlash and prior controversies
her latest social media post to create a fan backlash.
pointing to prior controversial postings of hers
Gina Carano Is Off ‘Mandalorian’ Amid Backlash Over Instagram Post
clearly linking the firing to the backlash
The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news
self describtion as counter-cultural
eing “canceled,” Carano announced a partnership with The Daily Wire.
pointing out that she and they are defying cancel culture
In reality, the company had been reportedly looking to fire Carano for some time due to her conservative views.
the real reason is her conservative viewpoints
company claimed were “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities.”
the company´s version clearly highlighting doubts on the official version
order to discuss cancel culture and the importance of standing up to the attempt by some people in power to silence alternative viewpoints.
mention of cancel culture defining it as "some people in power to silence alternative viewpoints" their interpretation of cancel culture as coming from the powerful
But her tweets have also made her a controversial figure among Star Wars fandom.
pointing out her controversial nature in the Star Wars fandom
“They have been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and today was the final straw,” a source with knowledge of Lucasfilm’s thinking tells THR.
quoting a source
issued contentious tweets, one in which she mocked mask-wearing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic
also taking a clear stance "amid the novel coronavirus pandemic" judging this action
has been the focus of social media ire for her political comments
her prior controversial posts
she falsely suggested voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election.
taking a clear stance on her post about voter fraud "falsely"
the hashtag #FireGinaCarano was trending following an Instagram post from the outspoken conservative actor and former mixed martial artist that was met with severe backlash. The post has since been deleted, but screenshots were widely shared by users on social media who called for her firing from the hit Disney+ Star Wars show.
writing about the hashtag, how the backlash transpired
"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."
Lucasfilm statement
after sharing a post on social media implying that being a Republican today is like being Jewish during the Holocaust
the offense stating that the post was about the treatment of Republicans
voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election
talking about voter fraud in a factual sense Presidential election
that mocked mask wearing during the pandemic
also taking a clear stance "mocked´´ mask wearing
She also mocked the use of gender pronouns, listing “beep/bop/boop” in her social media bio.
taking a clear stance on her prenoun tweet "mocked the use of gender pronouns"
deleted the post but it was widely shared online and spurred the #FireGinaCarano hashtag to trend.
talking about the hashtag
Carano fell under heavy criticism after she posted that “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…. even by children.” The actor continued to say, “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
quoting her full post
after many online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the U.S. political climate
the actress is hitting back at Disney and cancel culture by partnering with Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire on a new movie project.
clearly situating this case as part of a cancel culture framing the corporation as "hitting back at Disney and cancel culture"
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, retailer BigBadToyStore noted that the company is not producing any more action figures of Carano’s character in light of recent events, forcing it to cancel pre-orders."The Star Wars Black Cara Dune figure was released in 2020 and sold out not long after the inventory was received," a spokeswoman for BigBadToyStore told the outlet Monday via email. "Hasbro planned for another production run and we were accepting preorders from that production run. Due to recent events, Hasbro was no longer approved to produce any more of this figure
scrapping the production of Carano´s action figures
In the aftermath of her firing, Carano was also dropped by her talent agency UTA and Hasbro has reportedly scrapped plans to make more toys based on her sci-fi character.
talking about the other repercussions of her posts
Carano’s firing from Disney prompted many fans of both her and "The Mandalorian" to sign a Change.org petition calling on Disney to reverse its decision to fire the actress.
looking at the counter-movement of #FireGinaCarano
"Earlier on last year before 'The Mandalorian' came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage. I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio," she explained.
Carano´s statement on Disney´s intervention with the prenoun tweet
Carano claims the friction began with Lucasfilm in November when she changed her Twitter profile and added "beep/bop/boop" as her pronouns, which some people interpreted as a mocking of the transgender community.
Carano claims Prenoun offense, saying some people interpreted it as mocking not taking a stance
Most recently, Carano drew criticism after she posted a message on Instagram in which she compared today's political divide to the events in Nazi Germany.
the offense talking about political divide not about treatment of Republicans
The statement followed a longstanding campaign by fans of the TV series for the 38-year-old actor to be fired from the show, using the hashtag FireGinaCarano.
talking about FireGinaCarano campaign characterization of them as: fans of the TV series
Lucasfilm said: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
statement Lucasfilm
Carano also previously ridiculed the wearing of masks to protect against Covid-19.
taking a clear stance on her tweet ´ridiculed´ mask wearing
shared conspiracy theories in November about the result of the 2020 US presidential election
clear judgement "conspiracy theories about presidential election
she was accused of mocking people who state their preferred pronouns online, by placing the words “beep/bop/boop” on her Twitter profile
"accused of": again not taking a clear stance
Carano had previously been at the centre of social media controversy
about her prior social media controversies
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours … even by children … Because history is edited, most people today don’t realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.”
direct quote of the full post
appeared to compare the treatment of Republicans in America to that of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
the offense
after she appeared to compare the treatment of Republicans in the US to that of Jews in Nazi Germany
not being certain about the intention of the post, but looking at the treatment of Republicans
Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian after 'abhorrent' social media posts
headline: uses quote from Disney´s statement
Amnesty warned that the evidence of torture 'will exacerbate an already fragile situation.
consequences of the evidence