![]() Pearl-clutching fans and commentators will cry out about "cancel culture" and "conservative politics" being the root of Carano's excommunication when the reality is that Carano is experiencing the consequence of flagrantly inappropriate public behavior. The argument then serves as a social megaphone, boosting the falsehoods and deliberately misrepresented facts to bigger and broader audiences, stripping them of context, creating straw men for others to argue against that derail the issue even further. This particular style of engagement relies on the tried-and-true bad faith argument wherein a case is made full of blatant and obvious falsehoods and misrepresented facts, dressed up in such a way to bait arguments from people who spot the issues and try to push back against them. Even outside of the pop culture bubble, the endless cycle of abusive, abhorrent public behavior and then crocodile tears and feigned ignorance has become an entire "brand" for many people on social media-and it's a lucrative one. ![]() ![]() It's a pattern we've seen before, time and time again. By now, we all know the words to this song. These posts were just the latest in a long line of public aggressions, both micro and macro, from Carano, who has had a long history of making deeply inappropriate and downright offensive posts against vulnerable minorities, and then immediately falling into defensive self-victimization: It's not the groups she's mocking or blatantly attacking that are being hurt by her actions, it's her, and actually, the people reacting to her posts in a negative way are the real bullies here. Gina Carano has been fired by LucasFilm after yet another "social media scandal," if one can define "social media scandal" as very deliberately posting blatant anti-Semitism on a public account, including a meme comparing experiencing any sort of pushback on her own conservative politics to being Jewish and living in Nazi Germany.
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