Conservatives are trying to get Pedro Pascal of the Mandalorion fired for Holocaust comparison

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Lucasfilm fired Carano for the anti-Semitic post on Wednesday. "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable," the company said in a statement to Variety.

Now, conservatives are attempting to spotlight the alleged double standard of Lucasfilm firing Carano but not Pascal, who, in 2018, compared migrant children in the U.S. to Jewish children in Nazi Germany 1944. "#ThisIsAmerica," Pascal tweeted at the time. He included an image that supposedly shows children in a cage in the U.S., though the image's origins are unclear.

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"Hey @disneyplus, isn't this a'social media post denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities' and isn't it 'abhorrent and unacceptable'?" Steven Crowder said, tagging the company.

Donald Trump Jr. is also campaigning for Pascal's termination, even suggesting that Lucasfilm's decision to part ways with Carano but not Pascal is sexist.

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"Disney+ must immediately fire any actor who has made an overwrought Holocaust comparison," Ben Shapiro tweeted of Pascal.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused Disney of "canceling" Carano in a post lauding the Dallas native.

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Conservatives are now trying to get Pedro Pascal fired for Holocaust comparison

Donald Trump Jr. even suggested the decision to fire Gina Carano but not Pascal is 'sexist.'

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I hope this effort doesn't work because kids in cages and getting banned on social media are not remotely similar. And these people are going to complain about cancel culture in one breath and call for firing someone to prove their point in another breath?

 

[Tya]

Good luck, Nazis.

 

[UltraMav]

They don't get it. They'll never get it; and that's OK, because they don't matter.

 

[Hella]

meanwhile in reality

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border

"Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."

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"We have what I would call a concentration camp system," Pitzer says, "and the definition of that in my book is, mass detention of civilians without trial."

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[Ogodei]

These lugnuts assume that we only care because of team sports or something. Evil cannot comprehend good.

 

[Harbinger00]

Yeah, saw a fox news lie that Mandalorian fans were "confused" why transphobe lady was fired and he wasn't. I can assure you that we are not confused, Fox.

 

[Chirotera]

Pedro was making a legitimate observation based upon history.

Gia was throwing a tantrum because she's an idiot.

But conservatives have a infuriatingly hard time telling the difference.

 

[Deleted member 12028]

I would imagine Disney learned their lesson with James Gunn. Also a false equivalence. Gina Carano was also a pattern of behavior and given many chances to stop.

 

[Mana Latte]

I mean even if it were the same thing (it isn't), he wasn't even on the show at the time so it's not like he violated anything. Just gotta always be the victims

 

[Avitus]

It worked on James Gunn. Costs them nothing to try.

 

[Morrigan]

Donald Trump Jr. is also campaigning for Pascal's termination, even suggesting that Lucasfilm's decision to part ways with Carano but not Pascal is sexist.

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lol, holy shit

 

[ultracal31]

To conservatives:

 

[falcondoc]

I cannot imagine these peoples behavior. Brain dead lunatics

 

[AaronD]

Why do conservatives love showing off how fucking stupid they are? I know they don't prize rational thought, but wallowing in their ignorance is just insulting to the intelligence of pigs.

 

[MinerArcaniner]

Pedro was making a legitimate observation based upon history.

Gia was throwing a tantrum because she's an idiot.

But conservatives have a infuriatingly hard time telling the difference.

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They do know the difference and deliberately ignore it--mainly because they have no problem with fascist behavior towards brown people.

 

[Joeytj]

I don't know if conservatives are really stupid or just willfully ignorant about what the real issue. Or maybe it's a bit of both.

It's like when they don't understand the difference between pointing out a white majority is behaving badly and being racists and discriminating against black people with generalizations.

 

[Meg Cherry]

It worked on James Gunn. Costs them nothing to try.

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And completely backfired, by also giving him an all-star Suicide Squad reboot in addition to a third Guardians movie.

 

[DeliciousSunnyD!]

They don't get it. They'll never get it; and that's OK, because they don't matter.

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Oh many of them get it, they are just sociopaths and to them it's all about power and control.

 

[Froli]

This people.. They are fucking dumb and at the same time, evil.

 

[Tochtli79]

Fuck em, acting offended because someone criticized putting children in fucking cages. Wish they could be wiped from all social media tbh.

 

[Liyfda]

And yet they call us snowflakes, always hilarious

 

[MrSaturn99]

but cancel culture tho

 

[Silvergun-Blue]

They know exactly what they're doing, the whole point is to be as disingenuous and obtuse as possible.

 

[Sordid Plebeian]

Lol imagine firing a guy for not wanting children to be separated from their parents and put in cages

 

[thecouncil]

my faves are the "both of these are bad" types. getting a lot of those this week with james gunn / pedro pascal and the capitol riot / blm protests. real high-level genius stuff.

 

[JayCB64]

Ben Shapiro can, as always, eat my entire ass.

 

[NHarmonic.]

Of course Ben shabibo has a dumb take. What a waste of oxygen.

 

[Dynamite Ringo Matsuri]

every time I read something from the IDW think tank I grow a little fuckin stupider

 

[Htown]

they aren't stupid, and they have absolutely no problem telling the difference

 

[Tbm24]

Yea he's got nothing to worry about. Always depressing to see conservatives miss the reality that it's a genuine comparison.

 

[HStallion]

I have to love how they have been crowing from the roofs about cancel culture and their solution is to... invoke cancel culture.

 

[Ryan.]

Bunch of fucking idiots

 

[KtotheRoc]

Pascal wasn't wrong then and he's not wrong now.

 

[neon/drifter]

These lugnuts assume that we only care because of team sports or something. Evil cannot comprehend good.

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That's all this is to them. "You took one of ours down so we'll do it back!"

or maybe just have consistent morals and apply them assholes.

 

[wideface]

Yeah, good luck with that, idiots.

 

[CherryWoodFuton]

What is it about conservatives and whataboutism? It's like they both go together like pb and j

 

[EdibleKnife]

they aren't stupid, and they have absolutely no problem telling the difference

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Yep. They're just hungry to be legitimized by the too often naive people in charge of these decisions who play into their ploy to flatten all culture, ideals & rhetoric robbing them of context. There are too many centrists or "apolitical" entities and people who play right into their obvious nonsense thinking they're being even handed.

 

[Digital Dinosaur]

You become the character you play. Conservatives know "both sides" are not equal. They know saying good things are the same as bad things makes no fucking sense. But they need to draw false equivalency to make their positions seem valid.

Therefore conservatives have carefully cultivated a style of anti-intellectual and petty offense-taking that requires projecting a kind of breathtaking cluelessness while feigning a complete inability to understand what context is. And ruthlessly excising all self-awareness.

On the internet, we would call this bad faith trolling. For conservatives it has become a way of life and at this point it may be useless to ask whether it's an act. Even if they are technically smarter than this, it's how they believe they must act to win a culture war.

 

[HotHamBoy]

Pretty big self-own here, honestly,

 

[Mr. President]

No they aren't, they are making a bad faith argument to prove their perceived hypocrisy of the libs.

 

[Richiek]

So Nazis want Pascal fired for humanizing brown children?

Good luck.

 

[Rockets]

The right acts like "cancel culture" and "the mob" is a emblematic of the left but they do it all the time and in straight up embarrassing and shameful ways.

Case in point: Ask any Trump supporter about George Floyd and see what they say.

 

[EdibleKnife]

What is it about conservatives and whataboutism? It's like they both go together like pb and j

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They don't have any facts or reason to back up their hateful, bigoted rhetoric so they're forced to pretend there's no difference between good & bad things so everyone is silenced. If they don't get to promote harmful ideals or have to face consequences for expressing them, then they want to throw a fit.

"Hey @disneyplus, isn't this a'social media post denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities' and isn't it 'abhorrent and unacceptable'?" Steven Crowder said, tagging the company.

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Lol this shit is so lazy. Who exactly does Crowder think is being denigrated in that Pascal Tweet?

 

[Jakenbakin]

You need that office meme, where one picture is a Jewish concentration camp and the other is literally Hitler, then the conservative saying it's the same picture. That's how fucking dense they are.

 

[DongBeetle]

Wow getting fired from a successful TV show is the same as kids in cages. Fuck off

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I've seen shit takes before but this one is pretty high on the shit pile

 

[shaneo632]

Calling Nazis Nazis, nothing wrong with that.

 

[SquirrelSr]

Right wingers think this:

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?

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Is somehow equivalent to this:

 

[Beignet]

meanwhile in reality

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border

"Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."

www.esquire.com

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My uber-conservative dad always got mad when I called the facilities on the border concentration camps because he said it's rude to America and we're not like the Nazis, and that they were merely being detained for an indefinite period of time (lol). I tried to tell him not all concentration camps are death camps and we actually used concentration camps several times before in our nation's history but his dumb fucking boomer brain simply couldn't comprehend it. These people truly have no awareness of anything or have an ideology outside of whatever hateful bullshit Fox News injects into their brains. They're fully propagandized.

 

[RustyNails]

The idiocy of conservatives is an unending fountain. It just never ends. Keeps going and going. Pedro's tweet is suitably comparable but cons are going to take this to their graves about how Hollywood has knives out for them and so on. They will never understand why Gina was fired and Pedro wasn't.