Blocked and Reported Episode 51: [Yoda Voice:] Cancelled, You Are
Should Gina Carano have been fired from her job on the hit Star Wars show "A Candalabra" for being a dumb conservative with Boomerlike posting tendencies? The whole crew gets together to discuss. Also, Katie talks about her relationship with an old Trump supporter and Jesse looks back fondly on his grad-school trip to Israel and Palestine that solved that conflict once and for all.
Show notes/Links:
Bret Stephens in the New York... Post???????: https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/read-the-column-the-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-read/
Haywire trailer aka Gina Carano waiing on dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpffbDjWlog&ab_channel=MovieclipsTrailers
The redubbing incident: https://www.slashfilm.com/gina-carano-confirms-voice-altered-haywire/
Robby Soave on Carano: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/disney-cancels-the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-over-provocative-social-media-posts/
The "anti-Semitic" post that clearly isn't: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1359701663901245442
The Freedom for Humanity mural Carano eventually posted a version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_Humanity
A Carano-sympathetic take: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/people-are-trying-to-cancel-gina-carano-for-what-exactly/
Jesse in Ramallah, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via the healing power of sport:
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