Accountability in Entertainment • Page 27

I like that Bautista is supporting him. I'd like to think Gunn really did learn from the kind of person he used to be and has become a much better person. I think it's a shame and says a lot more about Disney that they fired him instead of saying something along the lines of "people grow, people change, this is the kind of person you can be when you become more loving and expell hate from your life and we are proud to have worked with someone who acknowledges who he used to be and is actively working towards being better for himself and anyone who looks up to him."

Because otherwise it just comes across as "we knew about the tweets when we hired him, he made us billions of dollars and now he's expendable because of bad press."

I did more reading about the incident because I didn't want to make any mistakes like I did before and he publically apologized for the "jokes" in 2012 which was the same year he was hired to do the first Guardians movie. It's just shows the kind of company Disney really is and I didn't necessarily hold them in high regard beforehand.

 

One of my MULTIPLE usernames for neopets was something like gc_rox_my_sox so I dont wanna hear it!!

 

Neopets is moving into the future!

 

Ngl before I found a job after college I made a new account cause I was so bored and they still had the same old games and it was a good time waster lol

 

Meerca Chase was my absolute favorite. Granted it's just Snake, but still.

 

Can someone give me the TLDR? I looked up a news story but they all just said “offensive tweets”...

 

I saw two galleries containing a couple dozen tweets total maybe. There were a lot of jokes about pedophilia and rape, jokes about NAMBLA. There was no mention of AIDs or 9/11 in the tweets I saw, but I've seen those two subjects referenced a lot in reporting about his firing. The tweets I saw were obviously jokes but the type of joke where you just say something horribly and utterly offensive and that's it. There was nothing else to the jokes.

I was never some die hard fan of James Gunn, but I was aware of him and remembered seeing Slither in theaters and I was aware of his Troma beginnings, but I have to say I was surprised at the sheer and utter stupidity and immaturity on display in those tweets. And the guy was around 40 at the time. My personal take is that Disney should not have fired him for these Tweets in this situation and that they have set a very bad precedent in their kowtowing to alt-right hatemongers, but I honestly don't see how you can look at what was said in those Tweets and then take offense to Disney firing him. I am pretty sure any employer I have ever had in my life would have shitcanned me in a heartbeat if I had made the same tweets and I've never worked for Disney.

The more I read into this the stranger it becomes to me that he never took the tweets down after originally apologizing for them before production of the first GOTG film. It didn't strike me as weird at first but I am not a Twitter user and really see it as overall a waste and doing much more harm than good. I think I'm a little old school in the sense that I feel like anything published for all the world to see forever should have slightly more thought put into it. So often tweets strike me as just jumping into someone's stream of consciousness for 30 characters and I have no idea what the hell they are talking / thinking about.

 

If they’re true? Jfc Ted.

 

Prosecuted?? WHAT ABOUT FREEEEE SPEEEEECH?!?!

 

The fucking hypocrisy from the right on this is insane.

 

Especially as they actively fight against legitimate abuse claims against any R. Pure hypocrisy.

 

Roy Moore was found to actually have engaged in sexual activites with underage persons, not just make jokes, and they didn't fucking bat an eye. In fact, they tried to get him elected. This is some bullshit.

 

Gunn's firing overshadowed this one.

Amy Powell fired as president of Paramount Television

 

Sean Gunn's very well crafted and earnest response to his brother's firing. It's a somewhat long thread. 10 tweets total.

 

I don’t know much about James but I have some mutual friends with Sean and I’m not surprised he put together a good thread on this. I’m still just shocked that those tweets weren’t scrubbed years ago. I’ve been having a hard time formulating thoughts on this whole situation, way more than most we’ve heard about recently.

 

I mean, I guess I don't see the reason why they would need to be scrubbed considering this situation happened 6 years ago and he publicly apologized for them, so it's not like they weren't known to exist. He was hired by Disney the same year. I guess scrubbing them completely to put them behind him, but then if they were somehow discovered again (which would have been really easy since this was already a news story years ago) it might be interpreted that he was hiding who he really is from the public or some bullshit.

All in all it's just stupid on everyone's part.

 

It’s just pretty simple PR to get rid of past social media and especially controversial statements once you get famous, so the fact that they were live and not dug up somehow was a surprise.

 

Dan Harmon leaves Twitter after controversial sketch resurfaces

 

Good gawd

Dave Bautista Blames 'Cybernazis' For James Gunn's Firing

 

I agree with that characterization of Gorilla Mike.

 

I think it's kind of a funny word, like makes it sound silly, which I don't like because I don't think it's a silly thing, but I agree with the characterization as well.

 

Ugh

‘Rick and Morty’ Co-Creator Dan Harmon Deletes Twitter After Controversial Video Resurfaces

 

Trevor Noah's Aboriginal women 2013 joke resurfaces - CNN

 

I'm trying to find the right way to say this but does it seem to anyone else like some of this is starting to seem like getting pissed to have something to be pissed about? I'm worried it is actually undermining the very legitimate public takedowns like Johnny Depp, etc .

 

"witch hunting" prob not the term i'd use now or ever