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'Mandalorian' star fired for social media rants

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'Mandalorian' star fired for social media rants

'Mandalorian' star fired for social media rants

Gina Carano, a lead actor in the Walt Disney TV series "The Mandalorian," was fired over social media posts that drew paralells between the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and modern attitudes towards people with different political outlooks.

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