#CancelDisneyPlus trends as Disney fires antisemitic actor

[nikola 4,342]

3 hours ago, Chromatislaps said:

This needs a bit more context, since her comment runs waaayy deeper than it seems.

There is a literal "civil war" going on in Lucasfilm. There is the Kathleen Kennedy faction which is trying to push a feminist (more like femi-nazi) agenda in Starwars, a team that is overtly trying to push diversity for diversity sake, not necesarily taking into account good narratives, or George Lucas's vision/continuity with previously established canon and therefore really blemishing his franchize. The lacklustre sequel trilogy is an example of their misconduct of the franchize (Especially the Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker), with countless loopholes in the narrative.

Then there is the Jon Favreau (from the Marvel universe)/ Dave Feloni (from the Star Wars the Clone Wars/The Bad Batch/Rebels tv series) team. They are behind the recent The Mandelorian tv series, trying to fix the damage to the franchize by directing the series into a direction old school fans would enjoy and George Lucas would approve of. The countless new series that were recently announced were mostly series that are spearheaded by this team (The Book of Boba (Fett), The Rangers of The New Republic, Star Wars: Ashokha, The Bad Batch).

There is only one show (The Acolyte, taking place 50 years before the Phantom Menace) that is being spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy's team, since the previous Disney CEO Bob Iger didn't trust her team anymore to pull through after the disaster that were the sequel trilogy movies. 

Here is the gist, Favreau's team doesn't care for identity politics, and just wants to make good Starwars, a universe that was already diverse: with aliens, strong space princesses (Padmé, Leia) and other women (the jedi Asohkha, Bo Katan, etc) and Lgbt characters. More diverse character would just fit well within that universe without the need to force it, and if the characters were well written. Kathleen Kennedy actively tries to downplay previously established characters as failures and not important (The sequel trilogy actively negates makes Darth Vader/Anakin's sacrifice and redemption at the end of Return of the Jedi by making Luke Skywalker a bitter hermit and Rey the "new" Luke Skywalker, killing the Emperor "again") and making new characters like Rey Palpatine/Skywalker more important than Luke or Anakin Skywalker.

There is a lot going on behind the scenes, and it made Lucasfilm studios into a toxic place to work at.

Now for Gina Corano, she isn't anti semitic, she made this comment where having an opinion which isn't left leaning or political correct is being treated similarly to how the Nazi's treated Jews, communists, LGBT people. This is in direct alignment with a big chunk of Starwars fans who were disatisfied with the treatment of the franchize, the narrative and the character building (or the lact thereoff). These fans (a big majority) where painted as "toxic and non inclusive" by the mainstream media in Hollywood. If there is a previously established canon that fans loved, and Kathleen Kennedy throws that out from the get go, then that is a reason for the fans to voice their complaints.

Kathleen Kennedy is trying to undermine Mandalorian's succes and her team is actively trying to sabotage the series.. Kathy didn't even know about the Luke Skywalker cameo in the finale of Season 2 of The Mandalorian. If she was informed she would have wanted to meddle in and not make it happen. The fact they managed to fire Gina, was solely based on Gina's recenty post. Since there weren't any post like this on her Twitter or IG before. Kathy is quite bitter since she isn't in the helm of Lucasfilm anymore.

The whole context of Gina Carano's posts on Instagram were to expose how the Kathleen Kenndy faction of Lucasfilm treats people who doesn't necesarily agree with the "diversity for diversity sake" policies. And the fact that the Kathleen Kennedy faction fired her, makes this all the more apparent that having a different opinion, having freedom of speech or drawing parallels is not possible anymore, because SJW (Social Justice Warriors) feels attacked by anything that is not alligning with their views. And I find it really worrysome and scary that the media is trying to spin it in favor of Kathleen Kennedy, and destroy Gina for just this comment. 

This is dangerous because this literally what Orwell's 1984 warned about: the destruction of free speech and right of having your own opinion.

Anyway folk in the upper echelon of Disney are hypocrits, since they don't condone comments like this, but they do agree and even THANK the Chinese CCP for filming near the Uighur concentration camps.. 

You should write fantasy... It seems like you have a talent for that 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

1 hour ago, nikola said:

You should write fantasy... It seems like you have a talent for that 

I edited my original post, in hindsight I phrased myself poorly, didn't really look into the matter much and wandered away from the actual point of contention. In short my adjusted post was: 

There is a whole trove of fans, who are discontent with the initial handling of the franchize, and were really starting to flock back to The Mandalorian because of Luke Skywalker, Grogu and the character played by Gina: Cara. Hardcore Fans are "seeing" a whole lot of mismanagment from higher up and see the firing of Gina as an attack on Favreau's attempt to restore the SW brand. 

Regarding Gina's insensitive post: I find it weird that she's getting fired from the get go without her getting a moment to explain her post, usually people get an opportunity to clarify themselves. Also I read that this insensitive post was a reaction to her being harassed on Twitter because she didn't want to put her pronouns in her twitter bio, to which she made a joke in ill taste

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

3 hours ago, Chromatican said:

NNNNNNN, not you making this about the meanie SJWS!!!!111 Gina Carano is a mess for comparing conservatives to Jews during the Holocaust. QAnon and the Republican Party have done way more damage and threats to the USA than anyone else in recent years:

Disney is definitely an evil company, but let's not act like Gina doesn't deserve to be trashed endlessly after her insensitive comments, and making comparisons to 1984 is just rich. And implying diversity and good storylines are mutually exclusive. A MESS.

Thanks for calling me out on my poorly phrased mess, I actually strayed away from the point I wanted to make. I redacted my post quite a bit. I agree I phrased myself poorly, but regarding diversity, I think disney handled it rather poorly in regards to Finn and Rey in the sequel trilogy. They literally set Finn up as a main character, only for him to be phased out to the side because Chinese audiences generally don't prefer black actors (this is not a joke, they literally have a shortened edit with less Finn), and he ended up being a funny "afro american" sidekick to Rey, who was set up as an interesting character who eventually didn't have any growth as a character, but was powerful from the get go. This is what I meant with forced diversity, it was not set up for a good characer arc. JJ abrahams and Ryan Johnson just put them there...

In comparison to Lando and Leia, Rey and Finn seem laughable.  Lando and Leia are good diverse characters: Lando  (pansexual man) a dandy smuggler/pirate feel going for him, lands in al sorts of trouble and love isn't bound by sex or gender to him, loses his love (a female robot) becomes an ally to the Rebels, eventually he becomes the leader of Sky City, which is oppressed by the Empire. resulting him to switch sides. Leia, a strong jedi princess), with incredible struggles and obstacles from a young age with her parents, is raised as a princess and diplomat, joins the rebellion, has no idea she has force powers, becomes imprisoned by Darth Vader her father, eventually finds out he is her father through her twin brother, who she did not know was her twin brother.... the. faces the same conflict as Luke about her father.. after Darth Vader’s death she has to deal with her reputation as the daughter of a dark lord .simply put their character building adds to the overall narrative.

[Born This Way 1,817]

There was also a new Star Wars show that she was rumored to be starring in. I'm really glad they fired her.

[Emakku 494]

41 minutes ago, Chromatislaps said:

They literally set Finn up as a main character, only for him to be phased out to the side because Chinese audiences generally don't prefer black actors (this is not a joke, they literally have a shortened edit with less Finn), and he ended up being a funny "afro american" sidekick to Rey, who was set up as an interesting character who eventually didn't have any growth as a character, but was powerful from the get go.

This is actually true. Chinese people are very racist towards black people, maybe not all but as far as I have seen.. And now I understand why Finn was moved to the side with Rose coming out of the blue in Episode 8 and having major screen time.

When it comes to Gina/Cara: I'm really sad she was fired basically she was really nice to watch in the show. Her comments on Twitter I think are irrelevant to Disney's image, she's not that famous for anyone to care but she did have a major part in the show, a lot of fans are upset about it so I understand the trend #canceldisneyplus. Gays cancel more people and things than any other group of people anyway. 

I think Disney (and Lucasfilm) would have a better image if they fired Kathleen Kennedy because she caused irreparable damage to the franchise with the sequel trilogy, alongside JJ and Rian.