UFC President Dana White is defending former Disney actress and mixed martial artist Gina Carano after she published insensitive and anti-Semitic posts on social media last week.
While White defended her, he also took a shot at ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, who comes from a Jewish heritage.
“Leave Gina out,” White said at the time. “Listen, we’re making mistakes. We all make mistakes. For everyone to go in with her – I like how Ariel Helwani did everything about him. It was all about him.
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Helwani shared a video over the weekend criticizing Carano for comparing modern conservatives to Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
“As a Jewish person and as a human being, it just doesn’t sit well,” he says in the video he shared on Instagram. “And I wish she would never have posted it. And honestly, I wish someone had talked to her about her social media posts over the past year. Some of them were not even political. Just generally they feel for “I’m sorry she followed this path.”
Many of Helwani’s ESPN colleagues came to his defense and the company released a statement for the first time on Monday.
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“Ariel is a valued colleague and an extraordinary MMA reporter. His record speaks for itself,” ESPN told the New York Post.
Carano, a star in “The Mandalorian,” compared Republicans living in the current American political climate to Jews during the Holocaust.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children,” Carano written on her Instagram story with a sad face emoji.
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She added a section in quotes below her comment.
‘Because history is being edited, most people today do not realize that to reach the point where Nazi soldiers could easily set up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate because they were Jews. How does it differ from someone hating for their political views? ‘