Op-Ed: Is The Mandalorian's Gina Carano a happy warrior?

When it comes to STAR WARS, there is always trouble in a galaxy far, far away. This time, it’s with apparently conservative actress Gina Carano. She’s been duking it out with left-Star Wars fans on Twitter and you should know what she has right…and wrong in this conflict.

From the Washington Examiner

The actress behind the rigid, bare-knuckle brawler, Cara Dune, in Disney+'s The Mandalorian has taken up a weekslong fight with fans to her left over just about everything that you could call “hot button” subjects.

Gina Carano, the former MMA fighter-turned-Disney star, has sounded off about everything from the very real perils of quarantine and COVID-related government shutdowns to anti-cop sentiment, the Black Lives Matter protests, and gender pronouns. Carano seems to think of herself as a happy warrior, but at what point does playful prodding against leftist Star Wars fans on Twitter amount to the same kind of nastiness she claims to be standing up against?

Her troubles with Twitter began in early August when Carano tweeted a popular photo of August Landmesser, known as the German in a crowd of Nazis that wouldn’t join his countrymen in a “Sieg Heil” salute. A photo displaying nonconformity, Carano took flak for it because fans dipping into her Twitter likes surmised that she boosts tweets that are about anything other than Black Lives Matter. In short, it was about what she wasn’t saying, more than what she was putting out there.

Since then, Carano has dug in and reveled in the support that has come her way from right-wing fans and not-so-good-faith actors such as RT. If the drama around The Mandalorian actress could be summarized in one way, it could be that she transparently flew the flag against ritualized shows of support to left-leaning causes, scribbling #BLM or gender pronouns into her Twitter bio, and voicing disdain for President Trump, like her Mandalorian counterpart Pedro Pascal has sufficiently done.