Disney after firing Gina Carano: “We are not right or left”

Los Angeles. The CEO of Disney, Bob Chapek, Has insisted on Tuesday that the entertainment company “is not tilted to the left or right” policy, following the controversy that generated the dismissal of the actress Gina Carano for their 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 during an investor event.

The dismissal of Carano, one of the protagonists of the series “The Mandalorian”, for his denialist publications of the pandemic and other controversial comments about the transgender community, aroused harsh criticism on social media by conservative sectors.

According to the top Disney executive, the actress’s contract was dispensed with for comments that Lucasfilm, producer of the Star Wars franchise, found “aberrant.”

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

“As history is altered, most people don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily stop thousands of Jews, the government provoked before their own neighbors hated them simply for to be Jewish. How is it different from hating someone for their political views? “, the actress posted.

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

Carano has on other occasions been opposed to the use of masks, has supported comments that say there is no racism and that supporters of the former president Donald Trump they are treated unfairly.

He once mocked the pronouns with which certain transgender people claim to be identified and on another occasion published cartoons reflecting anti-Semitic conspiracies, among other messages that also supported repeated allegations of electoral fraud, without evidence, by Trump.

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

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