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Fine.
Now this fuck isn't you:
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But I'm pretty sure this one is:
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Disney severs ties with James Gunn after controversial tweets
- Thread starter Sibersk Esto
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Fine.
Now this fuck isn't you:
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But I'm pretty sure this one is:
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This entire thing was started by the same guy who trumped up the Pizzagate Conspiracy. Disney may not be catering to the alt-right, but this was 100% a concerted effort by the alt-right to use outrage culture to attack a person who they didn't like the politics of. And this has nothing to do with the #MeToo movement because James Gunn made jokes, he has not touched or harassed anyone as far as we know.
Sure, but I think if that's the best someone can dig up to try to "tarnish" the dude, he's pretty well off.
Again, that petition was over a specific blog post. For whatever reason, these tweets had never been publicly scrutinized until the alt-right dredged them up.
man regardless of whether you think the tweets are bad beyond redemption it's a little worrying how many of you are totally willing to throw in with some of the most prominent names in gg and pizzagate
if your bloodlust is that real maybe like go for a walk or something. get some perspective
if your bloodlust is that real maybe like go for a walk or something. get some perspective
i can only think about Dark Helmet saying "LONE STAR" from spaceballs now
Don't think we can talk about it. Might want to focus on the topic.
I realized it long ago and don't use any social media.
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Wow. How did this thread somehow get worse. Getting actual witch hunts now lmao.
I'd be interested to see what James does next. He was probably all in on mcu stuff for years to come. Maybe he'll go back to indies? You can't be fired from a movie if its self financed and you don't have any money *thinking emoji*
I'd be interested to see what James does next. He was probably all in on mcu stuff for years to come. Maybe he'll go back to indies? You can't be fired from a movie if its self financed and you don't have any money *thinking emoji*
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Really lean into that inner edgelord.
It wasn't that exciting. Just a couple of people, both sort of pathetic in their own ways, having an unnecessary back and forth.
On topic, I think Disney had a chance here to have the guy make a statement about how he's changed, yadda yadda, but they decided to cut their losses. For all we know, Disney knows something we don't and they just didn't want that scab picked. Or they just really didn't want to deal with it. Whatever.
I sort of figure they sign people like this up in the first place with some sort of clause that if their past becomes a problem they'll cast them off. I always figured that was the only way Roseanne made it back.
Once Disney buys Fox in like a week or two they will control 40% of the domestic box office. 40%. Compared to 10-15% back in 2000s decade. If you are essentially blacklisted from Disney in the movie and TV business, you are frozen out of a big chunk of possible work. Seems a bit crazy.
It'll also be interesting to see if Disney continues cleaning up house, there are a number of other high profile actors and directors who have tweeted a lot of questionable jokes and comments over 5, 10 years ago. Will internet trolls / detectives start gathering up piles of evidence and submit them to Disney? What will their criteria be for acceptable and not acceptable?
Directors and actors and producers, if they are smart, will immediately go out and completely scrub their social media this weekend and erase anything that anyone might find offensive. Probably be a good idea to be completely apolitical from this point forward as well, and just have a PR team handle all social media.
In fact a smart business would be creating a social media team that guarantees that everything posted under your name is clean and won't offend anyone, and they constantly scour the internet to make sure your name is untouched by any controversy. Charge high profile people a ton of money, but you could also offer your services to normal people and ensure they have a clean social media profile before job seeking, dating, etc.
Except I do acknowledge that there is an extreme difference between what Gunn has done and actual sexual misconduct. I actually highlight this by wondering if the ideology of the people bringing this up would be called into question of they accused someone of something far more heinous. And if the Tweets were called into question before, then they should have been deleted at that time, not now.
I think you may have misread my post. I was talking about people bringing up the fact that the buzz for this whole fiasco is being generated by right-wingers and the fact their political views had zero affect on Disney's decision in the matter.
Yeah I won't deny that. But given that, the alt-right is obviously to blame for getting Gunn fired, not Disney.
I would say it's tangential given that while people are more likely to come out against sexual abuse, it also means otherwise innocuous situations like these are going to generate more negative buzz.
It honestly surprises me that in this day and age so many people are still ignorant to this truth. Even posting anon has the potential to get you. Don't be stupid on the internet unless you're prepared to pay for it.
This is a good idea, and it probably exists in the realm of publicist's job, but twitter has kind of opened the door for these people to speak their blasphemy directly.
Disney still hires Johnny Depp on the regular so I doubt they'll be cleaning much house unless Depp starts raising a fuss on Twitter.
pedophilia as a joke has never been a thing really, why would anyone think it's funny? Like, who did you see around you that thinks that shit is funny? I would've fired him too, people who make those kind of jokes make me really suspicious. Dude could be an actual pedophile.
If the cast starts publicly supporting him like what Bautista did, I'd say he has a pretty good chance. But if it's just Bautista then it's pretty much over.
It depends on the cast and who supports him, Disney would never recast Pratt, Saldana and Bautista.
I'm not completely optimistic but I could see Disney doing a 180.
Yeah, if they lose Pratt and co, they have to reboot the franchise.
Of course it subjectivity. You cannot change that no matter how much you huff and puff. I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to go back to 1950's puratism just because you say it's not subjective, which is a damn scary thought you hear someone say this day and age.
Now this is the perspective I want to see more of in this situation, how does the cast of Guardians feel about Disney's decision to just scrub Gunn from the series.
Yeah totally awesome to just have everyone judge each other with no basis or investigation. I don't like you so fuck you.
Sounds like a Utopia.
Things that aren't scary: A dude making jokes about personally molesting children. Things that are scary: People saying those jokes are bad.