1/15 I've put up a few brief posts highlighting the double standard in @Disney's treatment of @GinaCarano versus Pedro Pascal when both compared modern events in the U.S. to events in Nazi Germany. https://twitter.com/bostonwriter/status/1359849838494568450

2/ Now I'm going to finish off what I have to say about all this with something more serious - Godwin's Law or not, Ms. Carano made an entirely legitimate point using an accurate comparison between historical events and trends we're seeing now. Let me elaborate.

3/ Ms. Carano's Instagram post stated:
a) Nazi officials actively encouraged German citizens, acting in their private capacity, to harass, degrade & otherwise literally & figuratively attack Jews.
b) Said German citizens did so, of their own free will.

4/ c) Establishing that treating Jews in this way was not only (in their view) acceptable but morally right & necessary for the good of society laid the groundwork for German citizens' accepting much worse, e.g. arrest, deportation, imprisonment & industrial-scale murder.

5/ As I haven't seen @DisneyPlus or anyone who supports their treatment of Ms. Carano dispute these statements, I will accept them as uncontested facts. While what they describe may be horrific, facts themselves cannot be "abhorrent" or "anti-Semitic."

6/ Indeed, I contend refusing to acknowledge these factual statements as such would be far more abhorrent. To give @DisneyPlus leadership the benefit of the doubt, I will presume their rationale for firing Ms. Carano does not rest on this portion of her statement.

7/ She ended her post with a question: "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views[?]" I believe it is critical to note that she did not, even implicitly, identify any American person or group with Nazis, Germans in general or Jews in Nazi Germany.

8/ One might certainly infer from Ms. Carano's politics what she meant, but inferences are not facts. Inference belongs to the receiver; it exists solely due to the presumptions the receiver brings into the communication.

9/ But even assuming the meaning her politics suggest, her question is valid. As @BostonWriter's thread above shows, American media & political figures are encouraging & even engaging in varying degrees of aggression against conservatives, particularly Trump supporters.

10/ One can't pretend this isn't happening without willfully ignoring reality. So I arrive at the following:
a) No one disputes Ms. Carano's description of how Germans under Nazi rule treated Jews.
b) No one disputes treating people this way due to religion or ethnicity is wrong.

11/ c) There is ample evidence American government & media figures are fomenting aggression against those they disagree with politically.
d) This behavior, while politically motivated rather than racially, is analogous to the behavior seen in Germany in the 1930s.

12/ These statements can only lead to the conclusion that @Disney fired Ms. Carano for political reasons (ironically proving point c), using the weak excuse that any comparison to Jews' treatment under Nazi Germany diminishes the horror of the Holocaust & is thus "anti-Semitic."

13/ This is arrant nonsense. It's not a comparison to make lightly, but that doesn't mean it can't be accurate. Clutching your pearls & shrieking "How dare you!" only begs her question - why isn't it wrong to treat people this way because of political differences?

14/ End note in response to a point @BostonWriter raised in his thread: #CancelDisneyPlus isn't a tit-for-tat response that only feeds the Cancel Culture. I'm not arguing that @DisneyPlus shouldn't be allowed to exist in the cultural landscape.

15/ I'm just not giving them my money because they're a for-profit group, and losing money is the only incentive they respond to. Simply voicing disapproval won't get them to change their behavior.