# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/861 "2021-03-21T22:21:18Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > We had this conversation before; authorities, even in blue states, arrested the ones involved in violence. And I’d be willing to bet that not one of them will be hired as editor of Teen Vogue now. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/862 "2021-03-21T22:44:09Z")
Cites, rational thought, and arithmetic are tools of the patriarchy. You think I’m going to let the Man oppress me? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/863 "2021-03-21T23:28:27Z")
Well, the Mollusk, by ignoring cites, also shows the commonality that he has with a Gallus gallus domesticus… ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/864 "2021-03-22T01:26:10Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Cites, rational thought, and arithmetic are tools of the patriarchy. Around here, we don’t let leftists get away with unsupported and irrational arguments when we ask them for cites (not that any leftists around here have ever claimed AFAICT that evidence and rationality are “tools of the patriarchy”), and we don’t let right-wing trolls get away with them either. Of course not getting a prestige top-level job in the world of publishing doesn’t qualify as suffering more “consequences” than being arrested, tried and punished for criminal violence. Making silly arguments like yours, and then trying to evade criticism for your silly arguments by making up strawman silly arguments that you attribute to “the left”, doesn’t make you look any less silly. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/865 "2021-03-22T14:58:45Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You know what’s irrational? The fact that wokeness is nothing more than a bludgeon used by political psychopaths for power. Believing the BS in your post IS quite irrational, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/866 "2021-03-22T19:33:01Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > But isn’t that still part of the same fucking problem – the demonization and diminution of others who are different from us ? The goal is to make them the same. Hence the struggle sessions, forced apologies and admissions of guilt, and a little ‘therapy’ for badthink. And this apparently is the generous option, as opposed to just destroying someone’s ability to work in their field. Diversity only matters if it’s diversity of immutable characteristics like skin color. Diversity of attitudes? Diversity of poliitical thought? Forget it. The Overton Window on the left is about a millimeter wide. Asahi better hope that support for ‘re-education camps’ doesn’t fall outside that window in the future, or there may be some groveling and re-educating going on. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/867 "2021-03-22T20:00:40Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Diversity only matters if it’s diversity of immutable characteristics like skin color. Diversity of attitudes? Diversity of poliitical thought? Forget it. The Overton Window on the left is about a millimeter wide. Piffle x 100 > **[Trump administration targets diversity hiring by contractors](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-targets-diversity-hiring-by-contractors)** > > The president has also ordered the Labor Department to set up a new hotline to investigate complaints about anti-racism training sessions that Trump has called “anti-American” and “blame-focused.” > **[White House intern photo highlights lack of diversity in Trump administration...](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/04/01/the-white-house-releases-photo-its-interns-and-internet-asks-why-few-people-color/NIlQDmZFALB1bZF3th0W0L/story.html)** > > One person tweeted: “The White House intern photo is like a Where’s Waldo for a non-white person.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/868 "2021-03-22T20:14:49Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > {…} Diversity only matters if it’s diversity of immutable characteristics like skin color. Diversity of attitudes? Diversity of poliitical thought? {…} Maybe someday you, and others, will get it through your thick skulls why we don’t treat ‘mutable’ and ‘immutable’ characteristics the same. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/869 "2021-03-22T20:24:41Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Diversity only matters if it’s diversity of immutable characteristics like skin color. Diversity of attitudes? Diversity of poliitical thought? Forget it. What “attitudes” or “political thought” involved in any of the “cancellations” discussed in this thread are you saying should be protected from criticism on the grounds of “diversity”? Gina Carano’s lies about election fraud and COVID, and her self-aggrandizing melodramatic comparisons of criticisms of her opinions to the sufferings of Jews in the Holocaust? Alexi McCammond’s “stupid asian” and homophobic slurs? Juan Williams announcing that he gets “nervous” on an airplane if he sees other passengers “in Muslim garb”? What is it about any of these “attitudes” that makes you think they should be protected from the predictable negative consequences of spouting offensive bullshit in public where many people find it offensive? And if you’re really concerned about intolerance about “diversity of political opinion”, maybe you should put in some of your reform efforts on your own side, where merely pointing out the fact that claims of a “stolen” 2020 Presidential election have no evidentiary support is enough to get Republicans “canceled” and censured by their fellow Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/870 "2021-03-23T15:08:25Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What is it about any of these “attitudes” that makes you think they should be protected from the predictable negative consequences of spouting offensive bullshit in public where many people find it offensive? I second this question. (is that a thing?) Also, I’m curious when the definition of “mob” changed to include “50 people on Twitter”? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/871 "2021-03-23T15:11:14Z")
> [@Boston Globe](#): > > One person tweeted: “The White House intern photo is like a Where’s Waldo for a non-white person.” I found 3! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/872 "2021-03-23T15:13:13Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What is it about any of these “attitudes” that makes you think they should be protected from the predictable negative consequences of spouting offensive bullshit in public where many people find it offensive? These are the time honored traditions of America you are talking about! [/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/873 "2021-03-23T15:31:02Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > I found 3! Indeed, about what one can expect from the “less racist person” Trump presidency and the picture was presented as an example among the less important staff, among the senior advisers the picture was even less diverse. > When Omarosa Manigault Newman left in December from her post as the director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, it was again a reminder of the absence of African-Americans in senior positions in Trump’s White House. She was the only black senior adviser. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/874 "2021-03-23T16:20:51Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I’ve never seen a movement in human history based upon a never ending malleable set of standards of ideological purity that has ended well. Republican Party: Hold my beer. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/875 "2021-03-23T16:38:41Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Republican Party: Hold my beer . Yeah. The ideological purity currently being enforced by Republicans over adherence to outright lies about “stolen elections”, for example, is way more 1984-ish than anything “the left” is doing. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/876 "2021-03-25T16:26:15Z")
I’m not going to deny we have our fair share of crazies. At least they are recognized as such and not in positions of tremendous influence in media, academia, and government. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/877 "2021-03-25T16:39:19Z")
Marjorie Taylor Green, Ron Johnson, Tucker Carlson, etc… would like you to hold their beer. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/878 "2021-03-25T16:41:30Z")
Fuck, y’all elected one of your crazies President . . . but I guess, somehow, that don’t count… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/879 "2021-03-25T16:51:05Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Fuck, y’all elected one of your crazies President That was so past four years ago. Can’t libs just let it go? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/880 "2021-03-25T16:59:32Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > That was so past four years ago. Hell, the Republicans had hundreds if not thousands of influential people managing to persuade tens of millions that the election their Crazy-in-Chief lost was “stolen”. And that wasn’t even five months ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=45)