# Gina Carano is ignorant AF, but cancel culture is really getting ridiculous **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694 "2021-02-11T14:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/181 "2021-02-11T20:39:47Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > This is ridiculous. A trivial person tweeted something stupid. Jesus Christ, who cares? Ignore her. There are more important things happening. I know, right!? I can only be angry at one thing at a time, damnit! Anything and everything else should have no attention paid to it! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/182 "2021-02-11T20:40:16Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > I don’t watch the Mandalorian and so I don’t know this person and I may have missed it, but have we any evidence that she had been warned about her social media activities in the past? I mean, it’s a reasonable assumption, but do we know for sure? Yes, she’s been cautioned about this before. It doesn’t take much digging on a search engine to find the evidence. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/183 "2021-02-11T20:40:48Z")
I doubt that firing Carano is going to change her mind or the mind of people who think like her. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/184 "2021-02-11T20:44:38Z")
This isn’t cancel culture. This is consequence culture. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/185 "2021-02-11T20:46:11Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Is the character really that cool or difficult to replace? She’s kind of a generic NPC ally who is good at punching stuff, and doesn’t have any particular ties to the main storyline. Nope, the NPC is not necessary. I liked the character in the story, but she’s not essential. If she never shows up again it’s no big deal. Kill her off-screen. Re-assign her to the far side of the galaxy. Doesn’t matter to the story. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/186 "2021-02-11T20:48:38Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > You’re right though, a lot of this nonsense just serves to distract us from the real problems. Thank you for admitting that “cancel culture” is not a real problem. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/187 "2021-02-11T20:50:19Z")
It’s because cancel culture and the mentally damaged folks of the far left aren’t about progress. It’s a cudgel used for conformity and power. It’s analogous to religious institutions and their accusation of blasphemy. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/188 "2021-02-11T20:51:40Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > It’s because cancel culture and the mentally damaged folks of the far left aren’t about progress. It’s a cudgel used for conformity and power. It’s analogous to religious institutions and their accusation of blasphemy Who could ever have predicted Octopus would jump into the thread without reading it in order to compare the left to a religion? I am shocked! 😮 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/189 "2021-02-11T20:56:13Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > It’s because cancel culture and the mentally damaged folks of the far left aren’t about progress. It’s a cudgel used for conformity and power. It’s analogous to religious institutions and their accusation of blasphemy. - [![](https://chorus.stimg.co/22279951/ows_b945a03a_df66_4d52_b112_4036d6b7c438.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces) ](https://chorus.stimg.co/22279951/ows_b945a03a_df66_4d52_b112_4036d6b7c438.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/190 "2021-02-11T20:57:44Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > This isn’t cancel culture. This is consequence culture. Stealing^ ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/191 "2021-02-11T20:58:19Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I know, right!? I can only be angry at one thing at a time, damnit! Anything and everything else should have no attention paid to it! Be as angry as you want at Gina Carano. I don’t care. I’m amazed, though, at how angry people like to get on Twitter. How they like to call out “problematic” tweets. How they like to call for heads to roll. And who knows, maybe some of those heads _should_ roll. A lot more people than will, say, bring pizzas to a picket line. Or make a conscious decision to not order, at all, anything from Amazon. Draw your own conclusions. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/192 "2021-02-11T21:06:15Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I watched the first season and the first two episodes of season two. Kept waiting for it to go somewhere. Anywhere. Did they do anything interesting with her character? Not that I could see. Certainly wasn’t blown away by her acting Actually, I thought the guy who spends all his time wearing a complete suit of armor with his head and face entirely covered displayed and conveyed a much greater and more nuanced range of emotion that Ms. Carano did. She’s not a great actor. Serviceable for the part she played, but not great. She is no great loss to the show. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/193 "2021-02-11T21:06:44Z")
Honestly, I’d forgotten the wife beating when I used him as an example. I mostly remember the train wreck afterwards. It seems when he was let go [WB blamed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/02/19/lets-all-remember-the-infamous-charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-meltdown/) it on “self-destructive behavior”. I’ll see if I can come up with a better example but there seem to be a lot of parallels between people on hit shows who can’t stop running their mouths until they get fired. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/194 "2021-02-11T21:12:23Z")
I think Kaepernick is absolutely a victim of cancel culture, albeit of a different kind. And a much more sympathetic victim, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/195 "2021-02-11T21:22:30Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > She apparently thinks wearing masks isn’t a big deal and that the election was rigged – wrong on both accounts, but these are fairly mainstream _ **conservative** _ opinions. Are we going to fire people for being conservative now, just because in some cases, we can? We’re just feeding the martyr complex. You keep using the adjective “conservative” to describe people and positions that are demonstrably RADICAL. Please stop it. (Yes, I recognize and acknowledge that you are not the only one who does it. I really want everyone who does it to stop it.) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/196 "2021-02-11T21:30:19Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You keep using the adjective “conservative” to describe people and positions that are demonstrably RADICAL. > > Please stop it. > > (Yes, I recognize and acknowledge that you are not the only one who does it. I really want everyone who does it to stop it.) What I find more problematic is the use of the noun “opinions” to describe statements that are demonstrably LIES. Assertions that the 2020 election was stolen, or that mask-wearing isn’t helpful against COVID spread, aren’t personal opinions on a matter of opinion: they are falsehoods. Even if the idiot who asserts them is stupid or ignorant enough to sincerely believe them, that doesn’t elevate them to the status of “opinion”. They’re still lies, just widely-believed lies. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/197 "2021-02-11T21:30:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why, oh why aren’t ignorant bigots a protected class? > 🙄 Because we gave Trump the boot. Certainly, that was on his next four years agenda. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/198 "2021-02-11T21:34:37Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > [**What’s this “we” shit, White Man**](http://wiki.c2.com/?WhoDoYouMeanWeKemoSabe) ?? Possibly not the most apt rejoinder to offer this particular interlocutor… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/199 "2021-02-11T21:37:13Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > This is ridiculous. A trivial person tweeted something stupid. Jesus Christ, who cares? Ignore her. There are more important things happening. > > Cancel Jeff Bezos. Boycott Amazon. Don’t get distracted by some twitter moron. I can’t believe you’re fussing about Amazon’s labor situation, when we still don’t have universal affordable health care or a solid plan to thwart climate change. And geez, it’s like living in Soviet Roosha with gulags and all, seeing that RFK Jr. got tossed off Instagram just for being a pernicious lying antivaxer during a pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/200 "2021-02-11T21:41:32Z")
Eh, she can get a job alongside Kevin “Boy Xena” Sorbo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=11)