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The Mandalorian's Gina Carano Will No Longer Be Part Of Star Wars

Lucasfilm has issued a statement condemning Carano after she compared political disagreements to Nazi Germany.

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It's the end of the road for Cara Dune.The Mandalorian star Gina Carano will not return to the series--or the Star Wars Universe. Lucasfilm has released a statement announcing the actress and former MMA fighter is not currently employed at the company, and that there are no plans for her to return in the future. The statement comes after Carano made an Instagram post comparing the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany to "hating someone for their political views." These are just the latest controversial social media posts she's made.

A statement by Lucasfilm was obtained by io9, reading: "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."

Carano's post about Nazi Germany caused the hashtag #FireGinaCarano to trend widely on Twitter. She later deleted the post, but screenshots of it continued to be shared online. The actress' controversies go back months, however, to before the premiere of The Mandalorian's second season, in which she featured prominently.

The actress has been accused of transphobia after mocking the practice of including pronouns in Twitter bios, and has also shared sentiments mocking mask-wearing and fueling COVID-denialism. The controversy was further fueled by tweets falsely suggesting voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.

"They have been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and today was the final straw," said an insider source quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.

While not confirmed, Carano was expected to play a part in the upcoming Rangers of the New Republic Star Wars TV show, while other rumors suggested a Cara Dune-centric show was in the works before the actress' controversial November tweets.

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I like how people keep saying it's cancel culture for differing views but this is like the 20th time she said something outrages it's just this time it's about Jews killing each other not the Germans history was editted FFS Pascal can't save you this time you dumb bitch.

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@kamikazekae: So it's okay to call people Nazis you don't agree with but making comparison about the culture of the 1930's Germany to today is off limits? I get it.

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@Packer1080: she can do what ever she wants just don't post it on Twitter I'm sure Disney had a STFU on social media if you like your job clause

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@kamikazekae:

Shes entitled to free speech and if you read the post she wasnt being racist in fact thr opposite.

She was calling out all the so called liberals that hate republicans and disney have gone and proved her point.

If she said Democrats she would never have been sacked.

So its ok to slag Republicans but not Democrats.

Doesnt seem like free speech to me.

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@Packer1080: you're blowing it out of proportion, and she did way more than just that.

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@Packer1080: call me when Trump supporters are being murdered en masse for just supporting Trump. It’s actually pretty hilarious that the people with all the guns and lifted trucks think the people wearing the pussy hats are the Nazis in this situation.

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@KahnArtizt: Well, Maxine Waters did call for violence towards Trump supporters, so we're pretty close to it.

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@KahnArtizt: Lol, amen!

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Poorly written character on a poorly written show. No real loss here.

I hope she goes back to MMA. She's a damn solid fighter and her talents go well beyond being a pew pew buff chick. She also wont have to worry about this cancel shit.

Just laughable that Star Wars is a political/cultural zeitgeist in America.

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@vl4d_l3nin: To be fair. Star Wars, in general, has always been mediocre.

Aside from IV and V, which were good (Not great), everything else is meh.

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@drakesully21 said:

This liberal social media is cancer now. No one can express a different opinion. If it does not match with liberal ideologies, everyone goes insane. These people are modern-day dictators!

just created account. reported

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@firedrakes: You just flagged yourself, fyi. GS' flagging system is busted. It flags YOU when used.

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@Barighm: so everytime I flag the webcam girls and date sites spam here I get it too?

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Oh hi is this the make excuses for Nazis party? I'm sure you're not making enough money gamespot but if these ARE your readers and all your "moderator" has to say is something that stupid, then you probably should just disable comments....

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@flamacue: Where you been, my dude? It's been like this for years now.

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Cancel culture claims another casualty.

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its not that.

@WarGreymon77 said:

Cancel culture claims another casualty.

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If the character was vital, or the show better, I'd be invested more.

But it's like.... eh... muscle woman gone.

*shrug*

Is it justified? Her takes were pretty bad. But at the same time the cancel mob ain't exactly likable themselves.

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I get that some of these tweets can be obnoxious, but they literally just hired, and defended, someone who declared all white people are racists multiple times on Twitter and had a senior writer openly mock the largest Star Wars YouTube channel for getting emotional about Luke being in the final episode of the show. This cancel culture is just sick, and it only goes in one direction.

And the sad thing is, all these people screaming about her don’t subscribe to Disney Plus and don’t watch Star Wars. So taking this action has no positive impact whatsoever.

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@dbthatisme: "And the sad thing is, all these people screaming about her don’t subscribe to Disney Plus and don’t watch Star Wars. So taking this action has no positive impact whatsoever."

Evidence on that? Nevermind Star Wars being one of the hugest franchises in the world? Nevermind Disney+ having millions of subscribers?

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That was an overreaction.

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Edited By PETERAKO

I do not know how to express how furious I am, and how moronic this move is.

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@CashPrizes:

You got some nerve assuming that I'm right wing and then calling me a snowflake. There was a time I enjoyed what I enjoyed. Then a certain kind of people wanted to change what I enjoyed, because they didn't like what I enjoyed(nor did they liked me enjoying it). Do you know what I did? Nothing. I didn't like it, but I didn't react. I stayed silent. But they never stopped. They told me it wasn't for me anymore, and called me all sorts of bad things(like you do now) they were taught in college. Patience has it's limits, however. You can't call me a snowflake because I started to fight back after I got beaten up.

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@PETERAKO:

Repeat after me: I AM NOT A VICTIM

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@joeyjojo1972: Are you implying that I try to play victim?

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