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Thu Apr 11, 2024, 07:54 PM Apr 11

How is hating someone for their political views different from reporting Jews to the Nazis (to be killed)? [View all]

Disney Reveals ‘Final Straw’ for Firing ‘The Mandalorian’s’ Gina Carano

https://archive.is/20240410210445/https://www.thedailybeast.com/disney-reveals-final-straw-for-firing-gina-carano-from-the-mandalorian#selection-1463.260-1463.333

"“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,” Carano wrote online at the time, “How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”
Disney's side wrote in the filing that Carano’s decision to compare “criticism of political conservatives to the annihilation of millions of Jewish people—notably, not ‘thousands,’” was the last time she’d be allowed to represent the company. Lucasfilm denounced her statement and publicly stated that the actress wouldn’t be returning to the show, and she was dropped from her agency, UTA.
Carano sued Disney two years later, saying the company “violated California labor laws prohibiting employers from taking adverse employment actions on the basis of an employee’s political activity.” Disney is fighting back against that claim in court, saying in the filing that having to continue employing Carano would be a violation of its own First Amendment rights.
“[State law cannot] force entities that do create speech products to speak through writers or singers or actors whose own speech and public profile could, in the employer’s view, compromise the employer’s ability to express itself in its own chosen manner,” the company’s counsel wrote in the motion filed this week."


No one made people hate you for your political views, that was your own choice: to sign on and amplify the largest source of lies on the planet. And, personally, no elites with an agenda made me despise purveyors of lies - that was my momma.

You have no one to blame for being a shitty person other than yourself.




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