She survived the Empire’s Death Star blast on planet Alderaan. Here on Earth, #Mandalorian mercenary and fan favorite @GinaCarano took a direct hit when LucasFilm and Disney+ vaporized all future appearances of the actress in any Star Wars projects. Her crime?
Was she arrested for reckless and drunk driving like Bruce Springsteen—causing JEEP to put the brakes on his Super Bowl Ad? Did she advocate explicit sex acts with multiple men like Cardi B does in her new No.1 Spotify single UP? Was she glorifying smoking pot and oral sex like CJ does in Whoopty? Nope.
The Gatekeepers of Diversity and Tolerance at LucasFilm were ironically intolerant and impatient with Carano’s pattern of “controversial” and “abhorrent” tweets including her:
Support of President Donald Trump
Refusal to include pronouns in her Twitter bio
Anti-mask beliefs and stance against the prolonged COVID shutdown
Call to open up churches and businesses
These tweets prompted LucasFilm Overlords to privately begin plotting a course to drop the rising star. But her post yesterday on Instagram was the final straw:
“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.” [Emphasis added].
A thoughtful person understands Carano’s point: Having neighbors turn against their neighbors—as was the case under Hitler—is a bad thing and spawned the rise of fascism. It happened then. It could happen again. How is her observation of history anything but factual and logical? Clearly Carano is concerned about the rise of covid-snitching neighbors as evidenced in San Diego, Akron, Chicago, and Austin among many other cities.
Alas, LucasFilm and Disney+ executives fail to understand, as has been said elsewhere, there is a “distinction between banning hate speech and banning speech it hates.”
Ironically, liberalism portrays itself as being compassionate, loving, and quick to embrace diversity—except when you disagree with them. The adjacent sampling of hate-filled, profanity-laden tweets aimed at Carano by a fleet of “tolerant” Woke Commanders is an example of “Allodoxaphobia”—the fear of hearing other opinions.
Civil rights activist and author John Perkins is rightly concerned about a country “marked by the sins of racism, sexism, and all the other –isms, where we can’t disagree without also hating one another.”
He’s right. We can lob verbal grenades in social media all day long and even fire them from their jobs—or, preferably, we can follow the Lord who said, “come and reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).
This is the [better] Way.