{"id":139057,"date":"2021-02-16T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=139057"},"modified":"2021-02-16T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:43:14","slug":"gina-carano-responds-to-being-fired-by-disney-following-tweet-utter-shock-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gina-carano-responds-to-being-fired-by-disney-following-tweet-utter-shock-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Carano Responds To Being Fired By Disney Following Tweet: \u2018Utter Shock And Confusion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgina-carano-responds-to-being-fired-by-disney-following-tweet-utter-shock-and-confusion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=139057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gina-Carano-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actress Gina Carano responded this week to her recent dismissal by Disney after she tweeted something that critics claimed was controversial by saying that she was stunned to learn of the outrage online and that people were claiming that what she posted was anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in utter shock and confusion when certain people said it was antisemitic,\u201d Carano <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/gina-carano-and-crowd-sourced-mccarthyism\">told<\/a> Bari Weiss. \u201cThen, as I went to take it down, I noticed that the image was not the same as the one people were referencing. I was honestly confused: should I take it down, or leave it up? I still don\u2019t know the answer to that question, because taking it down only makes the mob attack you more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weiss noted that people online were not only pointing to a tweet that Carano posted that compared the current political environment in the U.S. to Nazi Germany but they also had found an image that Carano posted in December that had \u201ca striking resemblance to an infamous East London mural called \u2018Freedom for Humanity\u2019 that Jeremy Corbyn defended from destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image showed several old men sitting around a monopoly table that represented power over different industries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, at first glance, that image looks as if it\u2019s a visual representation of the \u2018Protocols of the Elders of Zion,&#8217;\u201d Weiss, who is Jewish, continued. \u201cWhen old men, money, a globe and a secret meeting are in one picture, my mind screams \u2018Jews!\u2019 But it seems that, to a lot of people, it genuinely does not, perhaps because there are no explicitly Jewish symbols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe image for me was a statement that people need to stand together and rise up, stop being so manipulated by the powers that believe they know what\u2019s best for you and play games with our lives,\u201d Carano said. \u201cMy heart has only ever had ultimate respect and love for the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the controversy, Lucasfilm, which is owned by Disney, said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat was heart-breaking, but I didn\u2019t want to take away from the hard work of everyone who worked on the project, so I said ok,\u201d Carano told Weiss. \u201cThat was the last time I was contacted about any type of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm. I found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weiss continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Gina Carano got fired. Meantime, Ice Cube tweeted out, among other troubling things, the original London mural and it doesn\u2019t appear to have hurt his reputation beyond the Jewish community. John Cusack tweets unmistakeable antisemitic conspiracies and still gets cast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chelsea Handler, Jameela Jamil, and Jessica Chastain shared a Farrakhan video; P Diddy hosted the prominent antisemite for a July Fourth day address; and all of these celebrities are thriving. By the looks of it, Mel Gibson has had a very busy Covid-19, which suggests that leftist politics isn\u2019t the only thing that grants you protection in Hollywood. Too big to cancel?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro defended Carano in a statement to Weiss, saying, \u201cI know what antisemitism looks like, being one of the more prominent kippah-wearing people out there. This doesn\u2019t chart. I don\u2019t like the meme, especially given its origins. But antisemitism, like racism \u2014 and contrary to the NYT\u2019s executive editor\u2019s dictum \u2014 requires intent. Gina obviously didn\u2019t have any such intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGina isn\u2019t antisemitic. Period. This meme is being \u2018resurfaced\u2019 as a post-facto justification for an unjustifiable cancellation,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cGina wasn\u2019t aware of the origins of the original picture, and was devastated to hear about it, just as she has been devastated by the absurd and bad faith contention that she is antisemitic in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Gina Carano responded this week to her recent dismissal by Disney after she tweeted something that critics claimed was controversial by saying that she was stunned to learn of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181390,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gina-Carano-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gina Carano Responds To Being Fired By Disney Following Tweet: \u2018Utter Shock And Confusion\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gina-Carano-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gina Carano Responds To Being Fired By Disney Following Tweet: \u2018Utter Shock And Confusion\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}