Disney after firing Gina Carano: “we are neither right nor left”

The Angels. The CEO of Disney, Bob Chapek, stressed on Tuesday that the entertainment company is “not leaning left or right” politically, following the controversy that led to the actress’ firing Gina Carano for your comments on social media.

“We want both the way we work and the content we create to reflect the diversity of the world we live in,” Chapek said at an investor event.

The resignation of Carano, one of the protagonists of “The Mandalorian” series, for her denial of the pandemic and other controversial comments about the transgender community, drew harsh criticism from social networks by conservative sectors.

According to Disney’s top leader, the actress’ contract was terminated due to comments that Lucasfilm, producer of the Star Wars franchise, found “different”.

Specifically, the controversy was sparked by a publication on social networks in which the actress compared the political situation in the United States with Nazi Germany.

“As history changes, most people don’t realize that in order to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily arrest thousands of Jews, the government first challenged their own neighbors to hate them simply because they were Jews. How is that different from hating someone because of their political views? Posted the actress.

While the message did not reflect political alignment, that text was followed by a photo of a man with his head covered in masks and the caption, “Meanwhile in California.”

Carano has opposed the use of masks on other occasions, backed comments that ensure that racism does not exist and that the former president’s followers Donald Trump they are treated unfairly.

He once mocked the pronouns with which certain transgender people ask for identification, and on another occasion he published vignettes of anti-Semitic conspiracies, among other posts that also supported Trump’s repeated allegations of voter fraud, without evidence.

After Carano’s departure from “The Mandalorian,” some forums felt that Disney was applying a double moral standard because the series’ other protagonist, Pedro Pascal, once compared detention centers on the border with Mexico to concentration camps.

Carano has since signed with the conservative newspaper “The Daily Wire” to produce content.