Today in things that aren't the same thing:

Did you know that Fox News is still a thing? Because it is, and unsurprisingly they're defending Gina Carano and taking issue with her firing. They're arguing that-huh? Yeah, Gina Carano got fired. Well, they're not renewing her contract because of her dumb gross Tweets comparing being conservative in America with being Jewish in Nazi Germany.

We talked about this like yesterday. Huh? No, I'm not going to link
 to it, just...just scroll down a little. You know what? Fine, here.

From the network not afraid to ask
why there isn't a white history month.

Anyway, I should probably walk back my previous statement. Fox isn't so much defending Gina Carano as they are making the "well liberals do the same thing" argument. The news site suggests that fans are baffled (we're not) by Carano's firing when co-star Pedro Pascal did the same thing back in 2018 (he didn't). Pascal purportedly posted a tweet comparing the Trump administration's policy of locking children in cages and separating them from their families to what happened to Jewish children in Germany. 

Pictured: known liberal Pedro Pascal,
seen here probably thinking about
universal health care or something.

Here's what they said:

"But, the liberal Pascal...used the hashtag #ThisisAmerica to caption side-by-side images. The top image was said to show children confined by barbed wire in Nazi Germany...while the bottom image was purported to be from the United States in 2018--although multiple reports indicated the photo actually shows Palestinian children years earlier."

-Fox News, equivalizing 

Um, so how do you have a top and bottom image when it's a side-by-nevermind. The point is that the Trump administration did lock kids in cages, and they did separate children from their parents. In hundreds of cases, they deported parents without their children. The Nazis one hundred percent locked children in cages and separated them--in many cases permanently--from their families. That's a thing that happened and not only is Pedro Pascal not the first person to draw the comparison, he's also not wrong to do so.

As for the photo Pascal posted possibly being from some other instance of kids being locked 
up in cages, he's a shot of a detention center in El Paso, Texas from 2019. So what else ya got?

Show of hands, which end of the political
spectrum is pro-white supremacist? Oh, right.

Carano's original post suggested that the German government turned the populace against Jews, which they did, and then asks how this is different from hating someone for their political views, which it is. I'm not like a political scientist or anything, but it's totally different. For one thing, the American political right has been either actively courting white nationalists or staying silent while Trump blew his dog-whistle. Literal Nazis. Does Brian Flood of Fox News not see the problem here? Hey, nazi the problem? See what I did there?

Pictured: noted conspiracy nut and 
transphobic jerk, Gina Carano.

For another thing, calling people out for their shitty worldview isn't the same thing as scapegoating an entire racial or religious group and then murdering millions of them. Carano is free to hop on Twitter and call COVID-19 a hoax and even spout her dumb beep/boop/bop jokes, just as everyone else is equally free to call her a conspiracy nut and transphobic jerk. And Lucasfilm is free to not renew Carano's contract. I just don't think it's unreasonable to take issue with a conservative using the Holocaust as cover to spout nonsense without consequence.

Anyway, so no, Pedro Pascal comparing the Trump administration's Nazi-like policy to the Nazi's Nazi-like policy isn't the same thing as booting Gina Carano off Star Wars. And look, I don't think I'm just speaking for me here, but I don't hate conservatives. I really don't. I'm often frustrated by them, and I just wish they'd stop being so horrible, and racist, and transphobic, and anti-science, and anti-poor and-look the point is I don't hate them.

Although maybe ask me how I feel in a few days when a handful of Republicans
crawl out of Donald Trump's ass long enough to acquit him for that coup attempt he incited.