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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
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 don't tweet or Facebook. I realized the way the world was going years ago so I backed the fuck out of that bull. So as long as nobody ever looks at this place, where I've said some pretty fucked up disgusting shit, I'm gonna be ok. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus:
I don't tweet or Facebook. I realized the way the world was going years ago so I backed the fuck out of that bull. So as long as nobody ever looks at this place, where I've said some pretty fucked up disgusting shit, I'm gonna be ok.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus:
I don't tweet or Facebook. I realized the way the world was going years ago so I backed the fuck out of that bull. So as long as nobody ever looks at this place, where I've said some pretty fucked up disgusting shit, I'm gonna be ok.
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. [Reply]
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Direckshun:
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.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
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.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
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.
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 fucking kids are acceptable."
That's a hard line to sell anyone with a functioning brain. This call out PC culture is toxic as fuck. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
The Jacobins never learn...
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by GloucesterChief:
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by WhiteWhale:
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.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. It's as if we've seen that suggested and implemented before. [Reply]
