It's okay to be a "strong female character" just as long as one tows the party line ... or else:
Was it fatuous, superfluous, or spot-on?
The spot-on thing. That one:
Via Deadline, Lucasfilm has released the following statement: “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.”
What was the straw that broke the camel’s back? Carano recently wrote an Instagram post comparing being a Republican in the United States to being a Jewish person in Nazi Germany.
“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.”
That post has been deleted from Carano’s IG, but the hashtag #FireGinaCarano has been trending on Twitter ever since.
At no point did Miss Carano diminish or deny the Holocaust or even insinuate herself into that tragedy.
She did, however, allude to it and was proven correct when -at the urging of her co-star and the mob (a handful of squealers, really) - they demanded her removal and then succeeded in getting it.
It is not her colleagues or the studios who defended her (as they might for some other reason) but the audiences who have long since tired of the sanctimony and bullying that the entertainment industry has become known for.
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