Is The Mandalorian’s Gina Carano a happy warrior?

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The actress behind the rigid, bare-knuckle brawler, Cara Dune, in Disney+’s The Mandalorian has taken up a weekslong fight with fans to her left over just about everything that you could call “hot button” subjects.

Gina Carano, the former MMA fighter-turned-Disney star, has sounded off about everything from the very real perils of quarantine and COVID-related government shutdowns to anti-cop sentiment, the Black Lives Matter protests, and gender pronouns. Carano seems to think of herself as a happy warrior, but at what point does playful prodding against leftist Star Wars fans on Twitter amount to the same kind of nastiness she claims to be standing up against?

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