Following the reported firing of Mandalorian star Gina Carano from Lucasfilm #CancelDisneyPlus began trending on Twitter with many citing other allegations against Disney, Disney owned properties and employees.
Disney has cancelled @ginacarano, so I’m cancelling my @disneyplus. We need to stop giving these people our money and we must build new franchises.
Gina, if you’d like to come on the show to discuss anything let me know. pic.twitter.com/c2SSAjjdyu
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) February 11, 2021
Carano was fired after sharing a controversial social media post, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The now deleted Instagram story showed a picture of a Jewish woman being persecuted by Nazis and said, “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.”
Disney re-hired James Gunn but fired Gina Carano
Tells you everything
Disney fires James Gunn after old tweets about rape, pedophilia found https://t.co/AEwTrBG6yx
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 11, 2021
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Disney / ABC:
Fired: Roseanne, Gina Carano
Distributed: ‘Powder’, directed by convicted child rapist Victor Salva
Hired:
Convicted pedophile Brian Peck 1 year after his release from prison, on Disney Channel show ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) February 11, 2021
Soon after the announcement of the canceling of the beloved character, #CancelDisneyPlus was trending above Gina Carano on Twitter.
I don't usually get in on these things, but #CancelDisneyPlus.
Disney is ok with human rights abuses in China… but not free speech that offends leftists in America.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 11, 2021
According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Lucasfilm planned to unveil Carano as the star of her own show during a December investor’s day presentation but scrapped those plans following her November tweets. Multiple Mandalorian spinoffs are in the works from executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, including Rangers of the New Republic, which could have potentially starred Carano.”
Bella Thorne shared heartbreaking new details about her childhood sexual abuse at Disney #CancelDisneyPlus https://t.co/T3Z8xJbuZT
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 11, 2021
As of publishing this article the opposing sides were using each other’s hashtags to make their respective points, with other users using the hashtags to hype other Disney franchises including WandaVision which premieres a new episode Friday.
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