\n\n“Here is what Carano wrote on Instagram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors\u2026even 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This was a very flawed comment: For one thing, Nazi soldiers absolutely <\/em>beat Jews, in the streets and elsewhere. Carano is right that part of the Nazis’ agenda was to persuade German citizens to hate and fear their Jewish neighbors\u2014but what happened in 1930s Germany is not remotely similar to what is happening today in the U.S. The Nazi Party’s demonization of the Jewish people led to genocide. The media’s demonization of the Republican Party\u2014which is not directly referenced in her post, but it’s assumed that’s what she meant\u2014is obviously not comparable to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That said, Disney is wrong to say that Carano denigrated Jewish people, or that she is “abhorrent” for making such a comparison. She’s a celebrity with an obnoxious political opinion, which is not exactly a rare animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s the bigger issue with Disney’s decision to drop Carano: hypocrisy. If the studio doesn’t want to work with actors and actresses who make over-the-top Nazi comparisons, it has a major problem on its hands: Pedro Pascal, the star and eponymous character of The Mandalorian<\/em>, once sent a tweet<\/a> likening Trump’s immigration policies to Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not so surprising: Hollywood is chock full of people with quirky political views making dramatic analogies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n