Gina Carano - Read the Posts.


Ask yourself what you know about what happened to Gina Carano this month. Or Chris Harrison. Or Don McNeil. When did you hear about it, and how was it described to you? Did you go and read directly the tweets or interviews that they were sacked over? Or was a summary of the mob’s case against them enough to satisfy any curiosity you may have had? Did you think the punishment was slightly out of proportion, but they “should have known better?” You may be demonstrating Gina’s point (no matter how cringey) in real time. 

I beg you to read/watch the direct posts, quotes, and interviews that got these people cancelled. 

Read all of Gina Carano’s “controversial” posts below and ask yourself if someone should be dropped like a sack of rotten potatoes for sharing these thoughts on her own time. (Also imagine how she would be celebrated as a strong, smart, successful, attractively plus-sized woman “breaking society’s mold” if she were simply on the political left.) Cancel culture is an unsustainable cancer, protected by the mainstream media as both “non-existent” and also “appropriate.” Good for Gina, as the only one of the three above to not back down. 

For context, it starts with her putting “beep/bop/boop” as her preferred pronouns on Twitter:






Then a couple of months later, the sin of:



Then the “final straw” this month:




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