Gina Carano is an interesting person. She’s extremely athletic (her father was a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys) and she was a standout in mixed martial arts, competing very successfully in two professional leagues, with an overall professional record of 19-2-1. She is beautiful, and was featured in Maxim and ESPN The Magazine. She then moved into acting, where she has starred in Fast & Furious, Deadpool, and The Mandalorian, among other projects.  The Mandalorian is a Lucasfilm spinoff of Star Wars and is turning into its own extremely successful franchise, which should pay Carano handsomely for years to come. Except it won’t, because Lucasfilm just fired her, because she’s an out of the closet conservative. Check out this explanation of her firing from an article on CNet:

Carano, who played Cara Dune for two seasons of The Mandalorian, has come under fire before for her political social media comments. Late last year, the actress mocked mask-wearing during the pandemic, suggested voter fraud had occurred during the 2020 presidential election, liked posts disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement and derided the use of pronouns on social media bios.

Let’s take those one at a time. Ok, so she mocked mask-wearing during the pandemic. Have masks helped reduce the spread of the disease? Perhaps, but the data on that is very unclear, and one can certainly understand the skepticism of some people. Japan wears masks religiously, and they’re getting hammered by COVID right now. I’m not defending either point of view, I’m just acknowledging that debate on this topic is understandable. It’s not allowed, but it’s understandable.

Next, she suggested that voter fraud had occurred during the 2020 presidential election.  Considering the remarkable swings that took place in the weeks after election, in very specific districts of very specific states, one can understand why some might wonder about that.  Perhaps there was voter fraud.  Perhaps not.  I’m not defending either point of view, I’m just acknowledging that debate on this topic is understandable.  It’s not allowed, but it’s understandable.

Then, she liked posts disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement. One might think that any movement that used such ruthless and violent tactics to promote vague solutions to even more vague problems would open itself up to the occasional disparaging post. Did BLM act appropriately? Perhaps, I suppose, but that’s extremely questionable. I’m not defending either point of view, I’m just acknowledging that debate on this topic is understandable.  It’s not allowed, but it’s understandable.

Lastly, Ms. Carano stands accused of deriding the use of pronouns. This sounds ridiculous, as I doubt that Ms. Carano has strong feelings against any part of speech. So whoever wrote this article is intentionally concealing Ms. Carano’s efforts to point out the silliness of the 137 genders and all their various pronouns, and suggesting instead that she is waging an absurd war on grammar. Now, one could make the case that our array of newly discovered genders is reasonable. I’m not defending either point of view, I’m just acknowledging that debate on this topic is understandable. It’s not allowed, but it’s understandable.

So Ms. Carano lost a multi-million dollar contract, and all the acting gigs that it might have led to, because she debated four things that are most certainly debatable. I haven’t read her actual Tweets.  She may have been rude.  I’m not sure.  The article doesn’t suggest that she was.  But even if she was, her points were fair.

And now she’s gone from being an extremely highly paid actress to being unemployed.

There is a reason I write behind a pseudonym.  Heck, I recently considered just leaving Ricochet and keeping my head down.  These are scary times.  Ms. Carano tried to have an honest conversation, and openly stated what she thinks about things.  You might agree with her.  You might not.  But she told you what she thinks about things.  And her acting career is probably over.

Because you’re not allowed to think those things.

Even though these things are clearly debatable.  In fact, I suspect that the left knows just how debatable these things really are, which is why they’ve outlawed debate.  If they knew they were in the right, they would encourage debate.  Because they know they’d win.

But because they know they’ll probably lose an honest debate, a pretty lady who doesn’t know her place is out millions of dollars, and a life of fame and excitement.

If you wonder why conservatives won’t stand up for themselves, this is why.