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Disney CEO Bob Chapek Comments On Gina Carano's Firing From The Mandalorian

Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek further explains why Carano was fired from The Mandalorian.

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The Mandalorian lost its Cara Dune in February after the Star Wars Disney+ series lost Gina Carano. The actor was fired because of social media posts, and now, Disney CEO Bob Chapek has further explained that she was not fired because of her politics.

Chapek explained in a statement (via Variety) that it had nothing to do with politics and that "values that are universal." He said that Disney wants to make content that is "reflective of the rich diversity of the world that we live in."

Disney cut ties with the actor after a series of controversial social media posts comparing the persecution of Jewish people by Nazis to hating someone for their political views. This wasn't the first time Carano found herself in trouble for her social media posts. She's mocked mask wearing during the current COVID pandemic, promoted misinformation about voter fraud, and expressed transphobic views. Carno had been warned by Disney for previous posts. Carano has moved on to produce a movie with Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro.

This isn't the first time Disney has let someone go because of posts on social media. In 2018, James Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 for joke tweets from a decade prior that were offensive and Gunn had previously apologized for. Gunn apologized again, and after signing on to direct Suicide Squad, he was rehired by Disney to work on the third Guardians movie.

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“Disney cut ties with the actor after a series of controversial social media posts comparing the persecution of Jewish people by Nazis to hating someone for their political views.”

Congratulations Gamespot for idiotic, inaccurate and misleading article. Since Gamespot obviously didn’t read what the Carono tweeted, I’ll recap. It was ONE post and she compared how media was used to turn Germany’s own people against Jews which DOES happens in the US. Here’s the actual post that you obviously didn’t read or research

“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”

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Cancel Culture: The Game. They should make a game about Cancel Culture. In each level, you have a target and you need to dig dirt on them. Click R3 to scan the environment for toxicity. Entering the toxic levels is the only way to complete the early game, where you collect spores for evidence that can be exchanged for media or Twitter reports that will gain you more followers and notoriety to discover more targets with. There are daily power-ups such as YouTube (+5 efficiency), Twitter (+10 efficiency) and Mainsteam Media (+50 efficiency) for research to give you total situational awareness of the battlefield. Depending on how much stress they are put under, the average target gives you around 500 Cancel Power Points, whereas a high celebrity target will give you at least 1,000 Cancel Power Points, which you can trade in for Virtue Points. The more elaborate your scandal, the more you can wreck a target’s life. You can spend these Virtue Points on statues and works of art which portray you riding a High Moral Horse.

You start off as a common Troll and then gradually level up to Keyboard Warrior, Social Justic W, Disgruntled Mother, Troll Slayer, Twitter Lord, Paparazzi, Cringe Journalist and eventually... White Knight Lawyer. If you can push washed up pop stars like Britney Spears to do stupid shit, you can really rack up the bonus Cancel Culture Points. There will be Online Rankings to rank the amount of targets caught between players. There are two totally indestructible Bosses in the game. Bill Burr and Jordan Peterson, who will try to expose you if they catch you on the battlefield. One level is a stealth mission which has you flick Bill Burr in the dick with your finger as you walk past him. This will stun the mighty Burr and allow you escape the level, using alcoholic drinks as projectiles to keep security at bay. Comedians are perhaps the strongest enemies in the game. Other missions include a race against time across an open world city to make it to a protest march. This is where the game’s destructive environments and fire physics really shine as you light buildings on fire and try to smash as many windows as you can of the designated local shops with whatever weapon you can find; wooden baseball bat, steel baseball bat, crowbar, wrench and any rocks or bricks you might find to be used as thrown projectiles. Another mission has you defending the trans community and raising money to build new non-binary toilets in schools. There’s even a Trans DLC where you have to win Gold in all the Women’s sporting events. Here, you can trade in Cancel Culture Points for testosterone enhancers. The boxing and MMA sections are said to be extremely violent and the game should be up for winning GOTY awards for it’s moral ambiguity. Other augmentations include a giant prosthetic penis which can be used as a whip. You can then use this new DLC-only penis whip to traverse large gaps and reach all-new areas of the map in which you couldn’t get to before. Upgradable items include the keyboard (can be used as a club), sign post (can be used as a battering ram), camera and binoculars.

Verdict: A game this unique and refreshing only comes along once every generation. 10/10 Masterpiece.

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It's so sad so many are completely brainwashed :-(

It was the lead actor, Pedro Pascal, who postal controversial, hateful, and completely false political posts, not Gina.

But apparently if you lean left you can lie and hate, but if you lean right you can't have an opinion.

If you really want to know the TRUTH, just read Pedro and Gina's posts - but don't be brainwashed by Disney's PR lies.

Then, try counting up how many people have already been sent to jail for 2020 voter/election fraud before saying none existed - maybe those criminals are in "imaginary jails"

Will be interesting to see how they spin then results of the next audits of paper ballots in AZ and NH.

But hey, Haters Will Hate - it's what they do!

And those who know the facts are against them ALWAYS turn to name calling, insults, and lies - been that way since day 1.

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So it was only about her political views.

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@LoKo2k: Instantly contradicts himself. but he did it with confidence. he was born to be a disney ceo. arguably the most political ceo position around, hence why he's lying.

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The Daily Wire is the last stop of the right wing train to irrelevance.

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@KahnArtizt: Versus the Huff Po and other left leaning rags on the train to irrelevance. It goes both ways there Skippy.

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@magnificent7: I stopped reading HuffPo 7 years ago when I tired of all the ads sandwiched between the article links with names like "17 celebs you didn't know were black"(pictured: Thor) and "20 celebs you didn't know were gay"(pictured: Ellen DeGeneres). Agreed, it's trash. But at least they don't think moisture means a medical emergency

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@magnificent7: it sure does! You won’t see any argument from me there!

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@KahnArtizt: maybe read a few things on it. You might educate yourself a little.

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@wingedbeast: Ben Shapiro taught me that a WAP is a venereal disease. So yeah, not the best source of factual information.

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@KahnArtizt: gotta wonder if his OB/GYN wife hates him or just has a 19th century view of female reproductive health

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She got fired for her political views. Who is he kidding.

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Disney just removed Dumbo and Peter pan because they say it had negative depictions and stereotypes.. From an elephant??

Cancel culture strikes again.. on their own products... lol

#canceldisneyplus

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@jecht187: Not sure why Peter Pan but Dumbo has an openly racist slant with the crows depiction of blacks and the at the time current "Jim Crow" mentality that Disney was open about.

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@march202002: false.

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@wingedbeast: that's correct. You are wrong

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@march202002: No I am correct and you're spouting nonsense.

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