{"id":76826,"date":"2021-02-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76826"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:31:20","slug":"76826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76826","title":{"rendered":"The New McCarthyites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars<\/em> spinoff productions. The last, “first” three chapters of the Star Wars <\/em>saga soured me on the whole franchise to the point where I just don’t care much. I’m told The Mandalorian <\/em>is worth watching – but I honestly wouldn’t know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I heard Gina Carano had been jettisoned from Mandalorian<\/em>, after talk of her getting her own spinoff series was making the rounds, it took me a moment to dig and find out why it mattered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s alleged by some media that she was tubed for being just a little too irascibly un-woke<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carano was the subject of much criticism recently when, in a now-deleted Instagram post, she compared being a modern-day Republican to being Jewish during the Holocaust. The hashtag #FireGinaCarano has trended on social media in recent months after other incendiary comments by the television and film star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And what were those “incendiary comments?” Especially as to “comparing” modern GOPers to German Jews in the ’30s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details are very, very thin. But I’ll defer to that not-remotely right-wing outlet, Variety<\/em>, for the closest we have to core facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors\u2026even by children,\u201d Carano wrote Instagram. \u201cBecause history is edited, most people today don\u2019t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.\u201d The post originated on a different Instagram account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, totalitarians turn societies against themselves? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Woke Mob things that’s <\/em>politically incorrect, we’re gonna have a real difference of opinion in our society sooner than later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another post, Carano shared a photo of a person wearing multiple cloth masks with the caption, \u201cMeanwhile in California\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If riffing on California is politically incorrect, I don’t wanna be PC. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars spinoff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,420,24,308,18,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-cancelled","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-pc","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76837,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions\/76837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}