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Gina Carano Sueing for Wrongful Termination from Disney

valkyrie013

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This thread may not last long, but..

Gina is suing Disney for Wrongful termination, and, here's the weird part X (formally Twitter) is paying for it.
Elon said that if you had been fired from using the platform (X) for exercising your right to free speech, he would like to offer legal representation. So, there paying.

She has a long winded Twitt if ya'll want to read on X.

My opinion, she does have a case, but she'll never ever be brought back to act for Disney.
 
Is she suing in the US? Is she suing in Canada?

Either way, I imagine Disney has a ton of various morals clauses in there.
 
Awwwwww, what happened? Little Ben Shapiro didn't make her the action star she thought she was gonna be? And now she's crawling back and demanding to get her old job back? Best she can hope for is that Disney throws some money her way and tells her, rightfully so, to fuck off. Large companies have wording in their handbooks / contracts to the effect that anything you do, even if it's on your personal time, that damages or potentially damages the companies brand can lead to disciplinary action up to termination. So if her dumbfuckery was leading to anything negative for Disney, they'd be within their rights to discipline her, even firing her if she didn't modify her behavior. (you know, the same conditions that exist at EVERY job) She works for THEM. They don't have to put up with her shit. But it is hilarious that she's demanding to get her job back at big, bad "woke" ole Disney. Yeah, she can rot in the hell of shitty right wing "made for tv" SyFy level movies.

In short, she fucked around and found out.
 
This is so hilarious on so many levels. More than half the initial filing is just tweets, and then there's also some quoting of a literal opinion piece from a guest contributor on Forbes' website.

And then there is this, from literally page 2 of the actual complaint:

INTRODUCTION
A short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech, or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated. And so it was with Carano. After two highly acclaimed seasons on The Mandalorian as Rebel ranger Cara Dune, Carano was terminated from her role as swiftly as her character’s peaceful home planet of Alderaan had been destroyed by the Death Star in an earlier Star Wars film. And all this because she dared voice her own opinions, on social media platforms and elsewhere, and stood up to the online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.

Defendants’ wrath over their employees’ social media posts differed depending on sex. Even though “the Force is female,” Defendants chose to target a woman while looking the other way when it came to men. While Carano was fired, Defendants took no action against male actors who took equally or more vigorous and controversial positions on social media. But the rule of law still reigns over the Defendants’ empire. And Carano has returned to demand that they be held accountable for their bullying, discriminatory, and retaliatory actions—actions that inflicted not only substantial emotional harm, but millions of dollars in lost income
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Yes. An actual, honest-to-God attorney wrote that and used it to begin a 59-page notice of complaint. (Note that their definition of "equally or more vigorous and controversial positions on social media" is "trash-talked Republicans," while Carano endlessly repeated homophobic, transphobic and anti-Semitic statements.)

Basically, reading through the endless 59 pages of shit in the complaint, Carano and her attorneys have to prove both of two things:

1) The conversations with Lucasfilm HR about her conduct rises to the level of harassment (on HR's part).
2) She’s got to prove gender discrimination for her different treatment, compared to Pedro Pascal, Mark Hamill and others, was a result of gender animus and had no other roots.

Good luck, Gina. Hope you didn't spend all that Ben Shapiro cash already. :lol:
 
Timby said:
Carano endlessly repeated homophobic, transphobic and anti-Semitic statements
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What bullshit. ( And "endlessly"? )

She said nothing homophobic or antisemitic at all. It is not antisemitic to say, in essence, "the US is starting to feel like pre-Holocaust Nazi Germany". The point was that we have a new "unclean" caste whom others are encouraged to persecute. It's an analogy. It does not promote antisemitism. On the contrary, it calls out today's fascists.
 
Set Harth said:
What bullshit. ( And "endlessly"? )

She said nothing homophobic or antisemitic at all. It is not antisemitic to say, in essence, "the US is starting to feel like pre-Holocaust Nazi Germany". The point was that we have a new "unclean" caste whom others are encouraged to persecute. It's an analogy. It does not promote antisemitism. On the contrary, it calls out today's fascists.
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She perpetuated a meme saying that talking shit about conservatives being okay makes America feel like it's pre-Holocaust Germany.

That's bullshit, and it is absolutely anti-Semitic.

And even beyond that, after repeated transphobic comments on the sets, Pedro Pascal (whose sister is transgender) brought his sister to the set and explained how those comments were unacceptable. Carano gave a half-hearted apology and then continued to double-down on her hatred and / or fear (they're often a combo package) of trans people.

There was no gender animus happening regarding Carano's firing.
 
Tosk said:
Holy cow, that introduction is just embarrassing.
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I didn't think it was real (I thought maybe some writer at THR was maybe having a funny or something), but it is quite literally from page 2 of the court filing. I almost got whiplash from my eyes rolling so hard.
 
Found out what she wants.. Zero % chance of it, but hey...

In the suit, Carano is seeking to be reinstated to her former "Mandalorian" role; an admission from the defendants that her termination was "unlawful and in violation of California law"; at least $75,000 in lost compensation; other compensatory damages since she also lost a promised role in another "Star Wars" series, "Rangers of the New Republic"; emotional distress damages; and other punitive damages to be determined at trial.

I will say that is was a bit of a double standard, Pedro was twitting alot of garbage at the time as well.
Lawyer once told me, if a case of a "protected Class" Everybody is in a protected class, so her claim of firing based on political affiliation is a "protected Class" So her suit does have some merit, not a completely BS one.
Now, She won't be rehired period, but probably get some money out of it.
 
Timby said:
and it is absolutely anti-Semitic.
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Nope. Calling out "progressives" for behaving like Nazis is not antisemitic.
And even beyond that, after repeated transphobic comments on the sets, Pedro Pascal (whose sister is transgender) brought his sister to the set and explained how those comments were unacceptable. Carano gave a half-hearted apology and then continued to double-down on her hatred and / or fear (they're often a combo package) of trans people.
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So where's the endless homophobia?
 
Set Harth said:
Nope. Calling out "progressives" for behaving like Nazis is not antisemitic.

So where's the endless homophobia?
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Dig up, son. Homophobia and transphobia almost exclusively stem from the same well of hatred.
 
Timby said:
She perpetuated a meme saying that talking shit about conservatives being okay makes America feel like it's pre-Holocaust Germany.

That's bullshit, and it is absolutely anti-Semitic.
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The cherry on the top was posting an antisemitic political cartoon. "What's happening to me is just like what the Nazis did! Me and the Jews, we're all just like the people in this cartoon being kept down by a secretive, easily-overthrown minority of rich, powerful people with distinctively caricatured facial features!" If you're going to say the rhetoric aimed at you is Nazi-like, you should probably know enough about actual Nazi rhetoric to not unintentionally repeat it thinking it's just sort of general, free-form conspiracy-theorizing about a non-specific "them" that's secretly running the world. "Them" is always someone specific, and if you don't know who "they" are when you're railing against "them," you're just a weapon being aimed by someone who does know who "they" are.
 
SO this basically boils down to: had a good job, screwed the pooch, got canned from good job and... is now out of money. Need money, not getting any work ... so sue the deep pockets that canned me... This is going to end well (not).

As others have stated far better than I, she's not got much (if any) of a leg to stand on. The lawsuit will more than likely get tossed.
 
Technically, she was never "Fired" from what I've seen is that she had a 2 season contract, and it was not renewed for Season 3, etc. So she wasn't "Hired" in the first place to be "Fired" from season 3 or from Rescue Rangers spinoff show. There may have been an "Oral" contract which has its own legal beagle problems, that she was "Promised" to be in S3 and Rangers, but nothing in writing. I suspect, if this gets to the discovery phase, that there will be a treasure trove of Texts and Emails to be made public. Which I kind of hope it gets to, She's not funding it, so she could easily not be in it for the money, but does want a jury trial, If its not tossed by a judge in the mean time.

She may have one on defamation or something to do with a unhealthy workplace that might have discriminated against her, but as said, she isn't coming back to the show, she has Tsar Bomba thermonucleared that bridge from orbit to make sure...
 
This is ridiculous, for one thing, there's no way Disney's going to rehire her, and if they are forced to nobody is going to be happy about it, and in the long run she'd probably be better off not getting rehired.
I can also almost guarantee you there is no way they would have fired her unless they were sure they were legally allowed to. This is Disney we're talking about, I doubt they make a single decision without having it thoroughly vetted by an entire team of lawyers.
 
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