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Elon Musk Is Funding Ex-‘Mandalorian’ Actress’s Suit Against Disney | Gina Carano accused Disney and Lucasfilm of discrimination when they dropped her after she posted baseless conspiracy theories (www.nytimes.com)

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[+] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works -7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IANAL (obviously)... (IAONAL?)

Every headline I've read about this says Musk is funding it.
Every article I've read says X is funding it, to make good on Elon's promise that the company would fund legal battles for those discriminated against for their behavior on the platform
Neither X nor Musk are defendants
The complaint does however feature Pedro Pascal meming on the 45 IQ crowd
The complaint also features an example of Pedro Pascal in 2020 posting a meme of Bert and Ernie (and Ducky) from Sesame Street holding up a "Black Trans Lives Matter" protest sign, a LGBTQ+ flag, and a "Defund the Police" sign respectively. The complaint alleges that Pedro Pascal was not disciplined by Disney for this, which it seems to allude is evidence of sexual discrimination. There was no mention of fair use law, though Disney likely wouldn't need to worry about that had they taken issue with his post. The allegation stands that Pascal was not disciplined for using Defendant's intellectual property to promote personal ideology
The complaint, at least from what I can surmise, does not indicate what started the debacle on X, but tries to paint it as if users just started attacking Gina Carano. The earliest relevant artifact I could find was her uncaptioned August 2, 2020 post of a monochrome photo of a crowd giving right-hand-forward/Nazi salutes, with a red circle highlighting one man in the crowd who is not saluting. Gina would later add context: "Heartbreaking and powerful story of a man who changed his ways for the woman he loved.. love changes the world, one person at a time.❤️" How you get "Nazi sympathizer" or "bootlicker" from that is beyond me.
The outrage against Gina allegedly intensified when X users harassed her to "say ACAB" and "use pronouns" (to identify herself, on her profile). These users posed this as a civil obligation and implied that the public would vilify her for not conforming, to which she did not yield. Gina eventually updated her profile to jokingly show "boop/bop/beep", to which she was excessively derided for (likely by bots/trolls)

"Elon Musk Is Funding [...] through X" would communicate the immediate truth. Very few media agencies thought to do so. They also do not expose any of the details I highlighted in my bullet points. Nor do they link to the publicly available complaint PDF, at least that I've seen.

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[–] emogu@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…“ — That’s how you get Nazi sympathizer. For all the research you did it’s amazing you couldn’t find the one thing that was beyond you. Hope that helps.

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for providing that context, I saw nothing about that in my (brief, limited) search. The quote felt incomplete, but it was more than enough for me to find news articles providing extra context. Here's the full tweet, for anyone at OOTL as I am:

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors.... even 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?”

My understanding has now shifted to that she could have been implying Republicans were being treated like Holocaust victims, which is patently absurd. But before even recognizing this, it struck me that the passage she quotes is accurate: history is edited, and the German public was propagandized into treating Jews as the enemy to nurture complicity for their genocide.

That's not to say I agree with her, because not all identity politics are equal: someone being attacked for their religious beliefs, race, or heritage is much different from someone being attacked for their political views. But, it still remains that nobody should be attacking anybody in a civil political setting. Meaning nobody should be storming any government buildings, nobody should be showing up to election sites with guns, nobody should be picket lining a Planned Parenthood, and nobody should attack anyone based on their identity (which does not include their actions).