02-12-2021, 03:07 AM
Rolando wrote:
[quote=kj]
I also have a bit of a feeling people should be able to say and even think stupid things and still work, but I understand peoples' feelings on this.
Careful....you're coming close to defending obvious hate speech! Gonna get yerself cancelled!
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/twitte...lorian.php
For months, we’ve been reporting on the atrocious behavior of Gina Carano online. The Mandalorian actress used her Twitter account to promote voter fraud propaganda, conspiracy theories, transphobia, and then used Instagram stories to suggest being a MAGA supporter was like being Jewish in Nazi Germany. #FireGinaCarano was recurringly trending on Twitter, because many Star Wars fans who aren’t trash monsters were appalled by Carano’s bigotry and ignorance, and wondered how much more Disney and Lucasfilm would allow her to taint their brands. Well, she was finally canned yesterday...
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Carano is free to say whatever she wants. She’s not been arrested. The government has not silenced Carano. Hell, not even Twitter or Instagram has shut down her accounts. However, freedom from speech does not mean freedom from consequences. She’s been fired presumably because she was drawing a lot of bad attention to herself, and thereby The Mandalorian. Her canning was the consequence of her own actions, not because Disney and Lucas Films are bastions of liberal ideals but because they are companies that want to sell Baby Yoda toys without the distraction/drama Carano’s bilious rants bring.
This isn’t about Freedom of Speech, it’s about the Free Market. Conservatives supposedly LOVE the Free Market, but MAGA folk are still mad. They’re declaring Carano a martyr of “cancel culture.”
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_b...-hayek.php
A number of people on the right today are arguing that Carano was fired because she’s conservative, but that’s not true, is it? Or maybe it is! She didn’t get fired for expressing traditional conservative opinions — austerity! military spending! anti-abortion! — she got fired for expressing transphobia, and for “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities.”
Do Republicans now believe that “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” is conservatism?