James Gunn fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. [re-hired]
 

Bunch of old tweets surfaced after some conservative activist outed some of his tweets from 2009-2012 making gross pedophilia jokes. Gunn hates President Trump's guts, so he was targeted by the group.

Somebody else here can post the tweets, as I'm on my phone, but mostly it reads like mindless stupidity, but yeah -- they were totally made in public on Twitter and Gunn works (worked) for Disney now, so.

I've got mixed feelings, but it's hard to argue that Gunn didn't deserve the ax, even though it's going to hurt the quality of one of the best movie properties out there.

**** everyone. Everyone decided to live by the sword. Everyone can die by the sword.

Which is my increasingly irritated way of saying, James has done his fair share of social media shaming, shunning and destruction.

Now I have to decide whether to boycott the GOTG3 movie. It won't be as good as it should be without Gunn at the helm.

Sucks that he poo pooed their dear leader, and a bunch of alt right shit birds dug up tweets of jokes that were pretty lock step with the times almost a decade ago.

I don't understand how Gunn went from making the Scooby Doo movies (utter trash) to the GOTG movies. It is impressive.

Trump Curse.

Next time, kiss the ring. Or at least be professional.

Don't blame the Alt-Right. Blame the Left and their tireless crusade to destroy everything. This is just using the weapons they created against them.

Number #4 on the Rules for Radicals in play. The Left hates it when they are forced to obey their own rules.

Nah, the left actually holds their own accountable. The alt right recognizes this and has weaponized it.

Fired for Twitter posts from ten years ago. Posts which had been deleted years ago. So they had to be dug up as part of a hit piece.

I hope my current bosses never look at anything I posted here in 2001.

It's funny how people who forgive all of Trump's bullshit think this is justified. Gotta have rules! But only for everybody else.

I'm a forgiving guy, but I crack back like a mother****er when my forgiving nature is taken advantage of.

JUST THIS WEEK, Gunn was balls deep in doing the EXACT same thing because someone on the less-than-militant left tweeted that someone on the right was a nice guy.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/mark...tist-blowback/

ROFLROFLROFLROFL

You can't actually believe this.

Lock step with the times? Were you running with an African rape gang back then?

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Right wing SJWs

You libs started this, now they're just playing along.

Fight fire with fire?

Iron Law of Life: Me Today, You Tomorrow.

In before DC...

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I'm tired of everyone else caring so much about other individuals words. WORDS.I don't ****ing care.

god damnit. this is why we can't have nice things.

reaason #4,583,211 don't put shit on social media. it will be seen by someone, somewhere, sometime.

please don't let JJ touch guardians...........****.

This seems....silly. I mean, I get that the shit he was saying is crass, but come on...we're holding shit people said online 10 years ago against them now? :shake:

Are you new?

Those tweets are hilarious!

People need to get over shit, this shit is dumb.

yup that's exactly my point. this is kind of a disturbing trend right now.

Parroting reddit here, but I wonder if Taika will get a look for directing it. He'd do it justice.

You’ve got to be kidding.

Josh Hader, a young player for the Brewers, is currently being crucified for stupid/offensive tweets he made five years ago, when he was 17 - dropped some N-bombs (referring to himself), one that was homophobic! (again, directed at himself - I'm gay AF), one using the dreaded P-word! and one where he talked about a woman snorting coke off his dick. The worst, and obviously most foolish, simply said "KKK #white power." Bad? Stupid? Sure. But he was 17. When you're 17 posting racist shit, it's probably more a reflection of what you've learned/heard from your parents or your environment. But in any event, he was SEVENTEEN. Not stopping the media and the SJWs from having a field day with him.

According to IMDb, Gunn is currently 51. So when he was making jokes about ****ing little boys, he was in his 40s. Or as Jeff Gundy might say, he was a grown ass man, and already involved in the entertainment industry. Sorry, but you shouldn't get a pass for that. Frankly, I wouldn't give a 17 year old kid a pass for that one, either. Child molestation is a whole different level of ****ed up.

He already publicly apologized for it in 2012. Disney has known about it for years. So why did they wait till now to fire him?

Disney also made a film 24 years ago with a convicted child molester Victor Salva. Powder.

Something is fishy about this whole thing.

How is this not in DC yet??

It's a Marvel property.

I was wondering if I was the only one getting a laugh out of some of those.

those were some seriously bizarre tweets lol

This is the post of the day.

I support Disney's decision here, not that they remotely give a shit.

We live in an era of online abuse and trolling, and any young kid who is bored to death and thinks it'll be largely consequence-less if he wants to spend his youth being an asshole on the internet needs to be aware that this behavior is not and is never acceptable.

Same guy that went after Gunn.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikxhgnU...g&name=900x900

this is the problem when you allow all these companies to merge into just a few big conglomerates. The first hint of bad publicity, they get rid of you.

I get what you're saying, but is context not a thing any longer? Was Gunn attacking with those tweets, or just trying too hard to make a joke (the tweet about Vegas, Rita Rudner, and Ed Hardy shirts was hilarious, though)? Fully agree that online bullying is a bigger problem than most people want to admit, but again, context. People need to realize that there is literally no way to prevent every single body from getting their feelings hurt from other people shooting off their mouths, unless you want to adapt controlled speech outlined by some governing body, and you can see for yourself how well that's working out for England. Disney can hire and fire whomever they want, but we're sliding up against constitutional issues here.

The Progressive Left has sowed the wind and now are reaping the whirlwind. They stupidly thought that the rabid dog they were unleashing wouldn't come around and bite them too.

Not as funny as I thought that they were going to be when I read an article about them, but there still were a few good ones in there

all true but this guy is the one who pushed the Hillary is running a sex ring out of a pizza places basement. That didn’t even have a basement.

He should have no credibility to question anyone’s tweets. Shouldn’t even be allowed on social media. He incited violence. A guy actually pulled a gun in the pizza place and demanded the kids in the sex ring be let go.

Precisely.

No one needs credibility to assert demonstrable facts.

If Charlie Manson said that George Washington was America's first president, that wouldn't invalidate the information.

That's related to the corollary of the irrelevance of the bias of media publications if they're doing the same.

ie, 'on [date], [person] said [quote] about [other person or issue]'

- Can't believe you are citing MSNFOXHuffBreitPo for this!!!

Precisely. It’s even worse for them. They have to play by those rules they invented or see their movement die. So they end up eating their own again and again. Those outside of the prog circle aren’t as constrained.

I don't tweet or Facebook. I realized the way the world was going years ago so I backed the **** out of that bull. So as long as nobody ever looks at this place, where I've said some pretty ****ed up disgusting shit, I'm gonna be ok.

ROFL

It's like that South Park episode where there's a huge threat to reveal everyone's internet search history and it sends South Park into a mass panic.

Wow are you delusional, or a revisionist history buff.

my former employer knew about this place and that I was BigRedChief. I'm not ashamed of anything posted on here so they were good.

The right is now weaponizing political correctness against celebrities.

Dan Harmon also deleted his twitter after an old video of him mock raping a baby doll was found. So who knows about rick and morty now.

I like GotG and it was good BECAUSE of Gunn... but I can't feel too sorry for him. He's one of many who has supported this climate of calling people out for bad jokes and getting them fired. Hell, I think gunn even agreed with his own firing.

Society is going to get really boring in this snitchy call out culture.

This has nothing to do with trolling or harassment.

This is about a family friendly company firing someone because he made awful pedophile jokes before they had even hired him.

I personally find pedo jokes offensive, but that doesn't mean they're inherently offensive. The fact that he was engaging with someone convicted of child pornography doesn't help his case in the slightest.

Look, if you're unhappy about political correctness and call out culture I'm with you.

If you're selectively opposed to it when your ox is gored, you're part of the problem.

Bottom line is Trump isn't employed by Disney. I'm sure they would have fired him.

The Jacobins never learn...

It doesn't matter how old it was because most people didn't know.

Now that a hate mob has made it viral, it is what it is.

It's hard to take a position of "Race jokes are bad, but jokes about ****ing kids are acceptable."

That's a hard line to sell anyone with a functioning brain. This call out PC culture is toxic as ****.

People never learn. That is why one of the iron laws of life, particularly when it comes to society and power, is: Me Today, You Tomorrow.

People don't think when breaking societal mores that they just opened it up for their worst enemy in the world to now use that same thing against them.

"What if this power was given to the worst possible person?" is something everyone should consider.

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Good job Disney for punishing someone for what they did a long time ago...

^i still have that golden book at my parents home.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. It's as if we've seen that suggested and implemented before.

Does it look like James Gunn is president?

You are citing a film from the 1940s which Disney doesn't distribute any more and a minor character from a 1971 animated movie. Gunn's sins were recently compared to those relics. Also, you are treating Disney as the decisions of one person instead of the conglomerate it has become. No one involved with those two projects are still with the company.

All that said, Gunn said some really, really ****ed up shit over and over and over. Either he's neck deep in this NXIVM madness, or he thinks he's way more funny than he really is when he's drunk/stoned tweeting. Hopefully the latter.

My guess would be that if Gunn wasn't attached to direct the next installment of GOTG most of the fan boys that are throwing a fit and signing petitions wouldn't give a damn. Freedom of speech? Political stances? Right or wrong? Nah its just about don't mess up my franchise and you know it.

That does seem to be the case.

I think bowser makes a fair point, though.

Gunn was fine with Roseanne getting whacked, so let's not cry over his Jacobin ass getting the guillotine afterwards.

^

Eh, I'm not gonna cry. But there's a bug difference between another retread show being brought back from Noonereallycaresville. And characters being brought off of the page and onto the screen. Plus we're a few movies in, and now the guy that had the vision that was working is now out. But maybe DC can hire him to turn their ship around

Both posted funny shit. She tried to blame pills. And has this pattern. His pattern without pills ended years ago. Because it looks like he gets it, but probably knows his peers. Where she's just another entitled Trump follower who knew better

But the company that hired her knew exactly what they were getting. Probably did this knowing how it would end. But that's what a lot of businesses do. Can't really fault the woman that's acted like new money for all of these years for acting like new money

I would imagine Disney will keep course. It would be interesting if they changed course though, to see if making that much money on a movie overrides bad PR in their minds.

I have a hard time believing that the majority of fans are upset about this enough to want Gunn fired. It'd be nice if a company would have the majority's back instead of appeasing the whiny minority who complains about every damn thing.

I must have missed the open letter from the cast of Roseanne, most of whom owe her their careers, thanking her for all she did for them.

Good luck with that. Every thing is perfectly acceptable as long as the person who made the comment has the same beliefs as you. America is ****ed.

I don't agree with you. So you're wrong. I'm right

Well, the tweets were public knowledge in 2012 when he apologized for them.

It's not like this is something we just found out about. It's just that right wing social justice warriors wanted some retribution for Gunn trolling Trump supporters and got some steam behind it.

If anyone actually cared about this, why weren't they bitching when he was hired?

I'm consistent. I'm sick of humorless ****s starting hate mobs to get people fired over jokes.

This seems like the first shot across the bow for the stars basically saying "No Gunn, no stars"

This is going to get interesting....

I'm curious why you used the term trolling to describe Gunn's activities and hate mob to describe his repercussions.
For that matter, your calculus in using the term retribution instead of repercussion might be interesting as well.

whale is correct. right wingers are looking to administer some payback. but they cant do that with a political argument. if they demand Disney fire Gunn for being hypocritical in regards to the 1st ammendment; it's a non-starter. instead, the right wing mob is making a social argument and demanding Gunn be fired for immorality. there will be social consequences regardless of how Disney handles the situation.

BL, have you seen Tom Hanks twitter?

Should I have?

- FP, have you seen the clip of Denver the guilty dog?

I looked it up. it was exactly what i expected . hilarious

It's not about payback, and it's not about immorality. What's happening is that the right has finally decided to join in the fray that's been going on for decades, and to