Ex mixed martial arts star turned actress, Gina
Carano, was fired this week by Disney from the show The Mandalorian over her controversial political tweets.
In November Gina posted several controversial tweets one of which joked about mask wearing
and another which suggested
there should be investigations into the voting processes in every state across
the country and urged for stricter voting laws to ensure the integrity of
elections. The last straw appears to have been Gina’s recent tweet which
compared the early attacks on Jews in 1930’s Germany to the treatment of people
who are right of center in the contemporary United States (This post has since
been deleted). The post went viral and social media backlash ensued peaking as
the hashtag “#FireGinaCarano” trended on Twitter on Wednesday February 10th.
Since
Gina’s ousting, there has been an outpouring of support from the political right
who decry the move as another example of the excesses of “cancel culture” in
the United States. One of the critics of this move by Disney, conservative
pundit and co-owner of the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, appears willing the put his
money where his mouth is in fighting back against the cancel culture. Only two
days after her ousting, the Daily Wire and Gina announced
that Gina would star and produce a film in partnership with the Daily Wire. Gina
touted the new partnership on Friday saying “I have only just begun using my voice
which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the
same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”
Will
this recent episode of cancelation then un-cancelation be the start of a
new trend in American media and politics? The right side of the political isle
has been decrying what it perceives as a bias against conservative viewpoints
in the media for decades. It now appears that large uber-successful companies
like the Daily Wire have finally built up enough infrastructure to stand against
what was once a monolithic media entertainment machine run by Hollywood elites.
Will the partisan divisions which seem to be dividing right from left in the
America more than ever cause the creation of a whole separate media, news, and entertainment
industry which accepts those that may be deemed too right-wing or conservative for
traditional Hollywood? It is an interesting question to consider. If the recent
success of the Daily Wire’s first major film “Run Hide Fight” is any indication
of the potential for another film produced by the company staring Gina, then
this may certainly be the beginning of a new force in the media industry.
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Liberal media has done this to themselves as they have completely abandoned reporting the facts as being news worthy. The mainstream media has promoted the liberal agenda to the point that it is so obvious that facts and fair reporting have vanished.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to see how, especially in recent years, political partisanship has bled into pop culture, entertainment, and every other facet of life. While it is important to hold people accountable for their actions, there comes a point in which it can become skewed and simply having an opinion can set off a domino effect on career and personal life as well.
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