Thoughts? I agree with the below. But I have a suspicion many moms on here wouldn't. Am curious... From the WSJ:
The Hollywood blacklist is back, baby. Actress Gina Carano lost her role this week as a co-star of the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.” Her crime? Ill-considered social-media posts, including one that compared hatred of conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Online mobs had previously targeted her for outré comments on mask wearing, the “preferred pronoun” fad, and fraud in the 2020 election. #FireGinaCarano trended and Lucasfilm Ltd., the Disney subsidiary that produces the “Star Wars” spinoff, predictably obliged. In the now-standard model of scorched-earth personal destruction, the United Talent Agency dumped Ms. Carano as well.
The film and television industry has come a long way on the subject of blacklists. During the McCarthy era, the director Elia Kazan gave the House Un-American Activities Committee the names of show-business colleagues he knew to be members of the Communist Party. Others, who refused to name names, were blacklisted by the studios and denied work. For decades, the Hollywood bien-pensant viewed the blacklist as an unforgivable stain on the industry. In 1999 some of the biggest stars in the business sat on their hands when Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar. “Trumbo” director Jay Roach lamented in 2015 that those who’d been blacklisted “were somehow seen as traitors because they had different political views.” In his review of “Guilty By Suspicion,” a 1991 film about the blacklist starring Robert De Niro, Roger Ebert wrote: “History has vindicated those who refused to betray their principles, but how would any of us have responded at the time—when to defy [HUAC] meant virtual unemployment in show business?”E Good question. I’m not defending Gina Carano’s posts, although they are probably defensible. I’m defending the principle. If it’s wrong for someone to lose his job because he’s a Communist, it’s wrong for someone to lose her job because she’s a conservative. Mr. Hennessey is the Journal’s deputy editorial feature
Except she didn't lose her job because she's a conservative. She lost her job because she showed extraordinarily poor judgment and drew blood when she bit the hand that fed her. It's one thing to disagree. It's another thing to disagree disrespectfully and in complete disregard of one's audience.
Disney doesn't have a monopoly over acting jobs. Someone else can hire her. It made a business decision that consumers of its products would prefer not to have people like her on their favorite shows. It will lose the business of many conservatives as a result. That's how the market works. And now she is more famous with conservatives who make ridiculous remarks like she did, so some conservative company will parade her out and make money from its customers.
This is an ill-informed response. There are hardly popular conservative shows out there Media companies are liberal, and attract liberal personnel. That's fine. And what they did by firing her is perfectly legal. But it shouldn't be the norm. It's a marketing decision only because of cancel culture, purity tests, and witch hunts. Which isn't liberal at all, actually, but quite the opposite.
@anonymous All the more reason she should have been more thoughtful before she went off on an ill-conceived, poorly worded, and flagrantly offensive rant on Twitter. Too bad for her.
@anonymous Ill-informed? Huh? What I said is EXACTLY what occurred. Disney made a business decision. Half the country is anti-liberal. They can now boycott Disney, and Disney can decide whether it was a wise decision. They warned her before, she decided to ignore the warnings, and she is paying the consequences. Same thing that would befall others who go against their employers policies and act like an idiot in a high profile way.
I honestly don't know why this story has gotten so much traction. Yes, she's a conservative. There are *plenty* of conservatives in Hollywood, usually the people with the pursestrings. She was fired for making an ass of herself on social media. NBD, who cares. And the idea that someone who posts goofy ideas on Twitter has become the face of a victimized Conservative ideology just goes to show you how pathetic the conservative movement is right now.
I think the bigger reason behind cancel culture is that politics has become so influenced by big money, us regular folk have very few options to counteract, one of which is to vote with our wallets. So we do. Add to that the reach and speed of SM and the reaction is swift and very effective.