The Empire Strikes Back: Disney CEO Gina Carano, Mandalorian star, was fired for ‘breaking universal values’ after tweeting a message comparing the culture of cancellation to the Holocaust.
- Bob Chapek tacitly defends Gina Carano’s dismissal at Disney’s annual shareholders’ meeting
- Chapker argued that Disney is not ‘left or right’, but stands for ‘universal values’ of respect, decency, integrity and inclusion
- Carano, 38, was fired by Lucasfilm from The Mandalorian for posting on social media comparing the Holocaust to the American political climate.
- Carano claims her co-star Pedro Pascal got away with comparing U.S. ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps because he is a liberal.
On Tuesday, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek tacitly defended the dismissal of Mandalorian star Gina Carano, suggesting that she was not let go because of her conservative views, but because she expressed opinions that were against the ‘universal’ values of the company agrees.
Chapek also denied that the decision was based on politics, and denied that the entertainment youth was ‘left or right’.
Chapek was asked at Disney’s annual shareholders’ meeting about Carano’s dismissal last month because he compared the experience of Jews during the Massacre to the American political climate.
A caller asked Chapek during the Q&A portion of the meeting whether Carano, 38, was singled out because he was outspoken about her conservative beliefs, as opposed to her left-wing co-star Pedro Pascal, who retained his job after he compared the ICE detention. centers to Nazi concentration camps.
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Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek defended the dismissal of Mandalorian star Gina Carano on Tuesday. He suggested that the actress insulted the universal values of the company.
The shareholder also asked the CEO if the company had a ‘blacklist’, Deadline reported.
Chapek, who did not name Carano by name, replied that he did not consider the $ 200 billion company ‘left or right’, saying that Disney ‘stands for universal values: values of respect, values of decency, values of integrity and values of inclusion. ‘
He continues: ‘and we want the content we create to reflect the rich diversity of the world in which we live. And I think it’s a world in which we all have to live in harmony and peace. ‘
Carano, a former MMA fighter who played the recurring character Cara Dune in the popular Disney + program, was fired for the post last month.
Lucasfilm, which produced The Mandalorian, issued a statement saying Carano said he “degraded people on the basis of their cultural and religious identity” and described her messages as “abominable and unacceptable”.
The former MMA fighter (left) was fired from the Disney + program after sharing a message on social media (right) comparing the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the American political climate.
Carano came under fire after she posted that “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children.”
She went on to say: ‘Because history is being edited, most people today do not realize that the government first hated its own neighbors because they were Jews so that Nazi soldiers could easily assemble thousands of Jews. How is it different from hating someone for their political views? ”
Carano deleted the message, but it was widely shared online and spurred the #FireGinaCarano hashtag to the trend.
Her supporters were quick to point out that in 2018, Pascal, who plays the title character in the program, shared an image on his Twitter account in 2018 comparing U.S. ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps.
Carano said in an interview with Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that Pascal could get away with such an act because he was a liberal, while she was punished for being conservative.
Carano, who played Cara Dune in the program (photo), said her co-star Pedro Pascal (left as the Mandalorian) could manage to compare the US ICE detention centers to Nazi concentration camps because he is a liberal.
“They were all over me and watching me like a hawk,” Carano said of the studio managers. “And I watch other people in the same production and they can say anything they want, and that’s where I had a problem.”
Carano insisted she was not the only one who was a ‘bully’ about The Mandalorian for their political beliefs, claiming that others who hold conservative views are reluctant to speak out.
“I’m not the only one who’s ever been bullied by this company, and I know that so deeply,” she told Shapiro.