Elisa Mariño
2 min readFeb 15, 2021

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So you are against the cancel disney, then? Because I haven't read a single word from you condemning that. Besides, free speech means that you can say what you want (as Gina did), not that people should remain silent while you do or like you. And that is the real thing happening here. People (many) answered back to Gina. She had a thin skin and instead of simply endure it, she decided to play victim and compare that with jew during nazism. Which is an insult to even more people. She made it worse, people disliked her, Disney did the maths and decided she wasn't liked and therefore, no longer profitable.

Free speech doesn't grant you others money to remain at a job were you are not reaching objetives. TV shows are cancelled all the time when their numbers are low, show characters die or are eliminated all the time when they are not popular enough. Actresses replaced when they no longer are young and pretty. It is normal in that line of business. But you want an exception for Gina, because you like what she says. That is OK, but still isn't enough for disney to keep her, because alt right is a minority.

What I say to you is not hostile, it might feel unconfortable to you because you want to be able to defend sexist, racist position without being called that. You claim that you aren't, but there are feminist that receive the same or worse attacks than Gina Carano for using her freedom of speech and you didn't mention it. For example: female journalist in the videogame industry. They use their freedom of speech, they are attacked for it. You didn't mentione them. Whay don't you defend them?

What I'm saying is that if you are about freedom of speech, you would be livid about those attacks of the downvotes to Black Panther. But you aren't even aware of those attacks to freedom of speech. And that is telling of your values.

If fact, if you are so pro-freedom of speech, you should accept mine when I point out that Gina's firing was a logical business decision that it was probably taken by several manager looking at rating numbers. I mean, Disney censored part of starwars in the chinese marked. Where you aware of that? Are you going to condemn the censorship of gay scenes in china as strongly as you condem Gina's firing?

She has already affected the botton line:

https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/hasbro-reportedly-cancelling-cara-dune-figure-orders/

Those contracts mean millions. She cost disney money. So your "likely unnafected" is already proven wrong. You could have google that, by the way. They didn't fire her when she defended the riot, they fired her whe she cost them a contract. Again, you might consider why you defend Gina's freedom of speech but not people attacked by Gamergate.

As it happens, SJW also have freedom of speech. To be really about that, you should defend them too. Fais is fair.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

Fiction is the art to tell lies to show truths. Politics is the art to use truths to tell lies.

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