Senator Ted Cruz has come to the defense of conservative actress Gina Carano, after Disney fired her from the cast of The Mandalorian over her controversial social media posts.
‘Texan Gina Carano broke barriers in the Star Wars universe: not a princess, not a victim, not some emotionally tortured Jedi,’ Cruz tweeted on Thursday.
‘She played a woman who kicked a** & who girls looked up to. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again. Of course Disney canceled her.’
It came as Disney announced on Thursday that its young streaming service had hit a record 94.9 million subscribers, exceeding expectations — but now the company faces growing calls for a boycott over Carano’s firing.
Senator Ted Cruz has come to the defense of conservative actress Gina Carano (above), whom Disney fired from the cast of The Mandalorian over her controversial social media posts
‘She played a woman who kicked a** & who girls looked up to. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again. Of course Disney canceled her,’ Cruz wrote of his fellow Texan
The Star Wars-inspired Mandalorian series was a key factor that helped position the year-old Disney+ service as a credible threat to the dominance of Netflix in the streaming wars.
Carano had appeared on the series as the popular recurring character of Cara Dune, a seasoned warrior who teams up with the bounty hunter the show is named for.
The conservative actress and former MMA fighter fell under heavy criticism after she posted on Instagram Stories comparing the murder of Jews in the Holocaust to the current U.S. political climate.
‘Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…. even by children,’ the post read.
The post continued: ‘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?’
Lucasfilm called the post ‘abhorrent and unacceptable’ and accused Carano, without explanation, of ‘denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities,’
After firing Carano on Wednesday, Disney was accused of double standards when it emerged her liberal Mandalorian co-star Pedro Pascal compared ICE administration centers to Nazi concentration camps.
Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano pictured together in 2019; Disney has been accused of double standards following the firing of Gina Carano after it emerged Mandalorian co-star Pedro Pascal compared ICE administration centers to Nazi concentration camps
Pedro Pascal’s 2018 post (left) comparing the Trump administration’s policies to the Holocaust has come under scrutiny after Carano’s Holocaust comparison (right) got her fired
In 2018, actor Pascal shared an image of Germany 1944 and what he said was America 2018, comparing Donald Trump’s policies to the Holocaust. He wrote: ‘#ThisisAmerica.’
The photo Pascal claimed was of children in American ICE facilities in 2018 was actually previously shared in 2011 by a Palestinian group, which said it showed Palestinian children in an Israeli detention facility.
Cancel Disney+ began to trend on Twitter shortly after Carano’s firing with many pointing to Pascal’s comments as evidence of the company’s hypocrisy when dealing with conservative stars.
Donald Trump Jr. shared the actor’s post, writing: ‘Same Movie as @ginacarano, same analogy, though the pic has the wrong date… I’m told it was 2010 under Obama/Biden.
‘So does @Disney discriminate against women for doing what their male actors do or is is only discrimination against conservatives?’
Blogger Matt Walsh added: ‘Not only did Pedro Pascal, an actor on The Mandalorian, compare the United States and Nazi Germany, but he did so with a photo of “America in 2018” that is not actually from 2018 and also not actually from…
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