Calls for MMA legend Gina Carano to be fired from her starring role in “The Mandalorian” reignited Wednesday.
The hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended on social media after Carano, 38, shared a post in which she suggested that Republicans in President Joe Biden’s America are being persecuted the same as Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neghbors…even by children,” Carano wrote on her IG story, accompanied by a sad face emoji.
Carano also offered up the following words in quotation marks:
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t 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?”
Carano has since deleted the post, but it was screen-grabbed and spread across social media platforms, including Twitter. She has not apologized nor acknowledged the controversy publicly.
as a jewish person, this is fucking vile and unnecessary. gina carano needs to be held accountable. the oppression my people have faced because of our religion and ethnicity is NOT the same as political disagreements. pic.twitter.com/ABuM8kO5hM
— sarah ︎ (@leiaswinterfell) February 10, 2021
Carano is no stranger to controversy on social media. The hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended last November after she openly questioned the presidential election that Biden won against Donald Trump and the validity of the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing a series of anti-mask posts.
Carano has been known to spread the message of far-right conspiracy group QAnon. She’s also faced backlash for mocking gender pronoun preferences.
Carano, a pioneer of women’s MMA, made history on this day in 2007 when she and Julie Kedzie competed in the first women’s MMA fight to air on live national television at “EliteXC: Destiny.” Carano made history again a little more than two years later when she and Cris Cyborg became the first women to headline a major MMA promotion’s event under the Strikeforce banner.
That fight, a first-round TKO loss on Aug. 15, 2009, was Carano’s last. She transitioned into a full-time acting career afterward.
#FireGinaCarano reignites after ‘Mandalorian’ star likens Republicans to Holocaust victims
