You’ve made excellent points and you’re right all the way through.

This is not a free speech issue. At all. It was a business decision. Plain and simple.

Her comments were inflammatory, tacky, and obnoxious. She absolutely has the right to say them. But free speech does not mean that everyone else must listen to them and cannot respond as that would violate their free speech. Charges of cancel culture are ridiculous at face value regardless of whether or not they’re coming from left or right. Consumers have the right to decide how they want to spend their dollars and what sorts of activity they want to be supportive of when people insist of making fringe and lunatic views public. Your examples of Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger highlight this salient point.

Also, in the US, corporations have legal rights of personhood. Personhood means corporations have the right to free speech too.

People who work for Disney as actors sign contracts. Part of those contracts has always been about preserving company image. If her publicly made comments violate the tenets of Disney’s image, which they do, and she signed such a contract, which she did as it’s a condition of employment, then she is in breach of contract.

Even if she was making money, they could still fire her and would be right to do so to maintain image integrity.

Free speech is not an absolute. It never has been. People, especially far right wingers have forgotten that and are treating that precious right with the deepest of disrespects. It won’t end well.