UFC president Dana White defended the now ex-Disney actress and mixed martial arts star Gina Carano, after she posted insensitive and anti-Semitic posts on social media last week.
While defending her, White also shot ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, who comes from a Jewish heritage.
“Leave Gina alone,” said White at the time. “Listen, we make mistakes. We all make mistakes. For everyone to participate in it – I love how Ariel Helwani did everything because of him. It was all about him. So stupid.”
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Helwani shared a video over the weekend criticizing Carano for comparing modern conservatives to Jews in Nazi Germany.
“As a Jew, and as a human being, it just doesn’t go well,” he says in the video, shared on his Instagram. “And I wish she never posted it. And frankly, I wish someone had talked to her about her social media posts last year. Some of them weren’t even political. In general, they seemed strange to me. I’m sorry that she has followed this path. “
Many of Helwani’s colleagues on ESPN came to his defense, and the company released a statement publicly for the first time on Monday.
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“Ariel is a valuable colleague and an exceptional MMA reporter. His background speaks for itself,” ESPN told the New York Post.
Carano, a star on “The Mandalorian”, compared Republicans who lived in the current American political climate to Jews during the Holocaust.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors … even by children”, Carano wrote in her Instagram story with a sad face emoji.
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She added a passage in quotation marks below her comment.
“As the story gets edited, most people today don’t realize that, to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily arrest thousands of Jews, the government first made its own neighbors hate them just because they were Jews. How different that is to hate someone for their political opinions? “