A federal judge denied Disney’s attempt to dismiss former 'Mandalorian' actress Gina Carano’s wrongful termination lawsuit against the company.
) sued Disney after she claimed she was booted from the Star Wars series after a slew of social media posts that allegedly “trivialized” the Holocaust., Carano claimed that she was fired in February 2021 for sharing her conservative opinions on social media, while other costars — such as star Pedro Pascal, were not reprimanded and kept their jobs after voicing their liberal views.
Carano’s controversial tweets compared the treatment of today’s conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, writing, “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.
“The First Amendment protects Disney’s decision to dissociate itself from some speech but not from other, different speech,” Disney’s lawyers wrote. “The First Amendment mandates deference to the speaker’s own decisions about what speech to associate with, even if others might consider those decisions ‘internally inconsistent’… Carano thus cannot stake out a discrimination claim by alleging that Disney accorded different treatment to different statements by different actors.
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