TV actress Gina Carano is in hot water for posting this:
Apparently people viewed this as outrageous hate speech (or something), and Lucasfilm fired her.
I guess this is me being my privileged, clueless self, but why is this a bad idea? Seems to me she’s asking us to try to learn from history, no? To see where things are heading and maybe make a course correction?
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. 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,”
Apparently people viewed this as outrageous hate speech (or something), and Lucasfilm fired her.
I guess this is me being my privileged, clueless self, but why is this a bad idea? Seems to me she’s asking us to try to learn from history, no? To see where things are heading and maybe make a course correction?