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> I just want to point out that supposed cancelling hasn't done a blessed thing in the instances that celebrities who say actual bad things publicly.

Huh?! Gina Carano was fired by Disney earlier this year because she had the audacity to draw a parallel between today's political vitriol and the Holocaust [1]. This happened precisely because of the power of the current outrage mob.

If you don't see the effects that the outrage mob is having on the rest of us, it's because you aren't looking [2].

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supernumberfireginac...

[2]: https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-th...



Is Gina homeless as a result of such action? She seems to be quite fine to me. I don't weep for the rich.


Gina Carano was fired because it was a gross and offensive parallel to make that republicans of today are treated anywhere nearly as wrongly as Jewish people in Nazi Germany. There is a nuance.

This also says nothing of Gina Carano's history of transphobic comments, which Disney didn't care about because they didn't make as much press but still says much about her character.


> Gina Carano was fired because it was a gross and offensive parallel to make

So you think it is OK for employers to enforce conformity of thought? I suppose that _your_ thoughts will never become problematic, right?

> republicans of today are treated anywhere nearly as wrongly as Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

The point isn't that they are. The point is that _this is where it starts_. It's a warning about where we're going if political vitriol continues. Perhaps review the ten stages of genocide [1] and see if you can draw any parallels.

> This also says nothing of Gina Carano's history of transphobic comments

What specific things did she say that were "transphobic"?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_stages_of_genocide




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