Disney fires Mandalorian’s Gina Carano over “abhorrent, unacceptable” posts

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Gina Carano's turbulent tenure as a member of the Star Wars acting universe has come to an abrupt end.

Lucasfilm issued a statement to the press on Wednesday, which Ars first found on io9, confirming that Carano was out of not just The Mandalorian, on which she co-starred for two seasons, but all Star Wars properties. It read:

Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.

The phrasing implies that Carano's relationship with Disney and Lucasfilm may have ended before her most recent high-profile post on social media: an Instagram "story" quoting an anti-mask podcast's post that compared Nazi "rounding up" of Jews during the Holocaust to "hating someone for their political views." The same post, from this Tuesday evening, implied that Jews were somehow more subject to violence by "neighbors" than by Nazis-without citing a nation, era, or other clarification about the point being made.

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