The vitriol aimed at ‘Right-wing’ Gina Carano is typical of entitled, childish Star Wars fans

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There has been a disturbance in the Force – as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. Yes, Star Wars fans are angry again and have been channelling their fury into a ritual as ancient as the foundation stones of the Jedi Temple at Ahch-To. They’ve been venting on Twitter.

The subject of their ire on this occasion is Mandalorian star Gina Carano, whom many Star Wars diehards want fired. To their dismay, Gina Carano has been tweeting messages widely interpreted as anti-face-mask, and supportive of Donald Trump’s claim that the US presidential election was blighted by voter fraud.

“Democratic government leaders now recommends [sic] we all wear blindfolds along with masks so we can't see what's really going on,” she tweeted on November 14. Twenty four hours later, with her Twitter mentions having turned into a replay of the Battle of Hoth, she appeared to double down by adding, “In a world where everyone wears a mask, it’s a privilege to see a soul.”

Carano might also point to the outpouring of hate directed against Vietnamese/American actress Kelly Marie Tran, after she had the gall to play the likeable sidekick character of Rose Tico in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi.

That movie was a flaming space-wreck. And also a sneery put-down of Star Wars fans, who were lectured, via Laura Dern character Admiral Holdo, about the evils of “mansplaining” and toxic masculinity. The point Johnson seemed to be making was that the core Star Wars audience needed to join the 21st century.

Kathleen Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm, is one of those who receives torrents of hate – her track record as a pioneering woman in blockbuster cinema through the Eighties and Nineties is forgotten. Why has she been so brutally singled out? The DC Universe has been every bit as big a mess as the Disney Star Wars. But you don’t see Zack Snyder weathering the sort of vitriol directed at Kennedy.

As of this morning, Disney has not commented on the Gina Carano controversy. The case can be made that her Tweets are unacceptable and contrary to the Jedi spirit. The difficulty is that Star Wars fans are in no position to lecture. They’ve lashed out so often, and so indiscriminately, that the high moral ground is the last place on which they have any right to stand.