The Western Journal
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Actress and former mixed martial artist Gina Carano is teaming up with Elon Musk to take on the company that canceled her.
Lucasfilm, the Disney subsidiary spearheading the Star Wars franchise, chose to fire Carano from her then-hit (the show’s viewership numbers have since dropped) show “The Mandalorian” in response to a frequently mischaracterized Twitter (the site now known as X) post she had published.
Though the post has been described as Carano’s attempt to equate Holocaust Jews to American conservatives, the post merely points out that political demonization can lead to greater evils. These posts and others related to forced pronoun use and controversial COVID policies are believed to have led to Carano’s firing.
On Tuesday, the actress announced she was officially filing a lawsuit against both Lucasfilm and Disney with the help of lawyers from Elon Musk’s X.
“Today is an important day for me–I am filing a lawsuit against [Lucasfilm and Disney],” Carano wrote.
“The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time,” Carano explained. “My words were consistently twisted to demonize & dehumanize me as an alt right wing extremist. It was a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying & making an example out of me.”
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