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Gina Carano Destroys The Cancel Culture Death Star

Elon Musk-financed lawsuit settlement ends in Lucasfilm capitulation

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Matt Osborne
Aug 08, 2025
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Look into her eyes. Gina Carano is the captain now

Gina Carano, the former MMA fighter who portrayed Cara Dune, the most popular character on the Disney+ streaming series The Mandalorian, has settled her lawsuit with Disney and Lucasfilm.

Carano was summarily dismissed from the show and dropped by her talent agency after posting an Instagram story that compared “hating someone for their political views” to the mistreatment of Jews prior to the Holocaust in Germany.

However, Carano had already drawn the ire of cancel culture for her wrong opinions about Trump and the 2020 vote count as well as Black Lives Matter. Her greatest thoughtcrime was putting droid sounds, “boop/bop/beep”, in her Twitter bio instead of pronouns.

In an ironic twist, Carano sued Disney, the owner of Lucasfilm, citing California labor codes that were enacted to protect Hollywood communists from blacklisting. In her complaint, Carano alleged that her political opinions were targeted while those of men were not.

“Carano was responsible for over half of the talent eng…

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