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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

@ Laserpunch

B, you are becoming a favorite read! Seriously...Hahaha! Gems.



Gina Carano posted the following ill advised tweet:

“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

The umbrage taken is over the fact that she is using a historical instance of genocide to make an obtuse and strained (at best) political point. Estimates place the number of Jewish deaths during the Holocaust at nearly 6 million lives lost. To allegorize the "plight" of MAGA supporters to a real (not perceived) tragedy of epic proportions kinda offends a great deal of people - myself included and I'm not Jewish, for the record.

Now this wasn't Gina's first gaffe; not even her first with anti-Semitic flirtations. She previously tweeted an image that offered support for the conspiracy that rich and powerful Jewish men control the world - complete with one of the pictured individuals seemingly holding a dreidel (or maybe giant blue diamond, potentially equally offensive). This image was an obvious homage to a prominently displayed bigoted mural from England circa 2018.

Regardless of whether you believe her intentions to be misinformed, misconstrued, misguided, or straight up racist, that's just too many instances of abject stupidity/poor judgement for a huge entertainment conglomerate with a worldwide presence to countenance. So, they fired her.

Not that Dr. Kain and I are besties, but he summated the facts pretty well..

I didn’t know about the other instance, and haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. If she had a prior history, and Disney told her to lay off it, she deserved it. There is an ounce of truth in that tweet. Sowing hatred for any group, racial, political, or religious is a dangerous road.

There is selective outrage with stuff like this. Look at some of the comments Ice Cube has made over the years. Nick Cannon was kind-of punished for his comments, still kept most of his jobs. I know he went on a “apology tour”, but I somehow doubt Gina would get the same treatment if she even went that route.