So people don’t have to worry about the consequences of their actions? Is that what you’re saying? Do you believe that people who sexually harass people shouldn’t be held accountable for what they do?
She also mocked people who put their pronouns in their social media bios. You think that’s acceptable? Not to mention that her co-star has a sister who is trans.
Agreed.
It’s not the law that needs changing, we need people to stop being so damn intolerant and punitive and demanding that anyone they disagree with or who makes a mistake be fired. Either that or these businesses need to realise the people on social media are just a noisy minority and stop pandering to them.
I’m not required to tolerate dangerous intolerant nonsense.
In all fairness, she publicly stated that her coworker explained to her why mocking trans people was not okay, and she retracted her statements.
Pascal, whose sister recently came out as a trans woman, assisted Carano last fall after she mocked people putting gender pronouns in their social bios by adding “boop/bop/beep” to her Twitter profile.
Carano said her co-star helped her understand why they were important. “I didn’t know before but I do now,” she wrote on Twitter at the time, adding that she stood against bullying, “especially the most vulnerable.”
Man, I couldn’t give a fuck about this woman. As for harming the brand, I didn’t quit watching because of her, but it just heaped one more reason onto the pile for me to regard the series with complete apathy.
It seems that her ignorance comes from genuine stupidity, not malevolence, but it’s no tragedy that Disney canned her ass.
Your intolerance of my intolerance is intolerant!
Doesn’t matter how progressive you are, you can still end up cancelled.
I think they just made a business decision, “will keeping this woman employed affect our bottom line negatively?” and they decided that the answer was “yes”, so they fired her.
If you don’t change the law, they will continue doing that kind of decisions, because that’s the nature of corporations.
(even if you do they’ll try to keep doing it, just lie about their reasons).
I know! The Guardian should be required to publish his articles.
No. It’s not. You’re right.
It is, however, cancel culture shooting fish in a barrel.
As we post, Jeff Bezos and Amazon are exerting all their considerable resources to keep their workforce from organizing so that they have a shot at decent working conditions and pay. And yet people are getting more exercised over what some actress I never heard of tweeted.
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.
My partner disagrees, he said her character was fun and had good fight scenes, and it was nice that she actually looked like she could fight rather than being another waif doing kung foo.
Who cares if an actress is woke, or understands the holocaust. The important thing is whether she can act.
I think she pretty clearly did.
You’re providing excuses for someone who doesn’t want to be excused - that’s not necessary. She had and has had ample opportunity to retract her statements, to make a different statement, to issue an apology - and she’s not done so. There was plenty of time between her tweet and Disney’s remarks for her to say anything. She didn’t. At this point, it’s logical to conclude that she is proud of her words and behavior and that she wanted and meant to make the statement. And that given the choice of anti-Semitism or working for Disney, she’s choosing anti-Semitism.
Why are you trying to take away her options?
It’s not the law that needs changing, we need people to stop being so damn intolerant and punitive and demanding that anyone they disagree with or who makes a mistake be fired. Either that or these businesses need to realise the people on social media are just a noisy minority and stop pandering to them.
Why do you assume that Disney made this decision because of people on social media? Why can’t they make this decision because they feel it is what is best for the business? Also, why are people on social media not allowed to express their feelings? It sounds more like you just want everyone to have to think exactly like you do.
Who cares if an actress sends out anti-democratic stop-the-steal tweets and anti-mask tweets that endanger peoples lives? As long as I’m entertained by her screen presence, right?
This, dammit. To them this was more trouble than it was worth. And especially when it is a matter of not reissuing a contract (as opposed to actually terminating), that makes the answer very, very easy.
Somebody needs to explain that to serial whiner Gina Carano, who is apparently nursing the butthurt illusion that “canceling” only affects conservatives.
Well, nobody would be caring at all in this case, if the actress in question hadn’t deliberately used her entertainment celebrity status as a platform to air her political views to the public at large.
I maintain that she has every right to do that, but neither she nor you nor anybody else has a right to demand that nobody else should care about it.
I think Disney should be required to hire all people who send tweets comparing the treatment of conservatives to the Holocaust. It’s the only sensible thing to do.
Damn. That’s a tall order during lockdown. You’re right though, a lot of this nonsense just serves to distract us from the real problems.
Asahi, shut the fuck up.
She did this deliberately. She wanted to cause a stir. In a few weeks she will have pretty cushy deal as a commentator on NewsMaxx or Fox, where she will complain ad nauseum how horribly her Republican counterparts (who tried a coup and murdered people) were treated by those terribly terribly mean ol’ Democrats who are just being as mean as they can be!
She was fired by her employers because NOT firing her would have cost them. If you do something that brings shame to your employer, expect to be canned.
You don’t like, you can hire her.
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. The Mandalorian is a giant pile of Meh.
I do actually care, a little, what opinions she projects to the public. As I said, it’s just one more thing keeping me from returning to the show. And Disney knows this. Disney knows some people care. Disney is protecting their bottom line.
It amazes me how conservatives, the champions of corporate liberty, those fighting so incredibly hard for the right of businesses to do whatever they want with their workers, up to and including blatant exploitation - these conservatives just fall the fuck apart whenever a business exercises its freedom to fire someone they agree with.
I once had a conservative woman proclaim in all seriousness that she couldn’t legally be fired for something she stated publicly. Yeah, honey. That’s the world you built.