James Gunn... *****

VincentHanna · 31 Jul 2018 at 08:07

Angilion said:
What he wrote was far worse than what Roseanne Barr wrote. If people who support him came out as strongly in support of her, I'd take their position more seriously. As things stand, there's a lot of "The same thing is different when people we agree with do it".

Well what she wrote was pure racism. Comparing a black woman to a monkey.

James Gunn wrote some poor taste jokes.

ubersonic · 31 Jul 2018 at 08:52

Minusorange said:
Normally I'd think this is just over reacting snow flakes with an axe to grind to make some faux outrage

It is.

If we were that genuine about holding people to account for stuff they did years ago when they were different people then Nelson Mandela would be stripped of his Nobel peace prize for his early terrorist activities. That kinda puts into perspective the nonsense of it.

sityeuropa · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:16

If anything he should have been fired for Guardians 2. It was awful.

aardvark · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:21

Diddums said:
Disney has had this card up their sleeves for years, make no mistake. I wonder what he did to make them play it though.

yeah this really - i think he fell out with a high level person and its being used as excuse to get rid.

marktruman · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:30

actors/actresses are really some of the most pretentious people around, aren't they?

" The cast says it waited 10 days to issue a statement to “think, pray, listen and discuss.” "

pray?

I mean who talks like that, in the real world... praying for what?

aardvark · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:33

marktruman said:
actors/actresses are really some of the most pretentious people around, aren't they?

" The cast says it waited 10 days to issue a statement to “think, pray, listen and discuss.” "

pray?

I mean who talks like that, in the real world... praying for what?

americans, they love their sky fairies

VincentHanna · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:33

marktruman said:
actors/actresses are really some of the most pretentious people around, aren't they?

" The cast says it waited 10 days to issue a statement to “think, pray, listen and discuss.” "

pray?

I mean who talks like that, in the real world... praying for what?

Chris Pratt is really religious, so that doesn't surprise me at all.

It's the reason his marriage fell apart, because he "found god"

MikeTheNative · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:35

aardvark said:
americans, they love their sky fairies

Yep Americans use pray quite a lot in statements even official ones. I always find it a bit odd when you see it in the UK.

aardvark · 31 Jul 2018 at 09:43

VincentHanna said:
Chris Pratt is really religious, so that doesn't surprise me at all.

It's the reason his marriage fell apart, because he "found god"

i had no idea he was religious

Roar87 · 31 Jul 2018 at 10:39

I'm all for defending people making a joke, but his tweets aren't even remotely funny. I'm someone who enjoys Frankie Boyle, Chris Rock, etc, but this guys tweets just make him look like a weirdo, and there's thousands of them. There's zero chance Disney will go near him with a barge pole after these tweets were highlighted, it shows how little understanding the actors have of Disney's brand that they've even bothered to come out to defend him.

Skunkworks · 31 Jul 2018 at 10:44

kissenger said:
I don't think he objectively deserves to be fired for what he wrote. They're obviously intended to be funny. But... the left has been doing this **** for years so they shouldn't be surprised the right has started to use the same tactic. Here's a good example and an article well worth a read: https://quillette.com/2018/07/23/the-public-humiliation-diet/

Yep, live by the outrage mob...

VincentHanna · 31 Jul 2018 at 10:47

Roar87 said:
I'm all for defending people making a joke, but his tweets aren't even remotely funny. I'm someone who enjoys Frankie Boyle, Chris Rock, etc, but this guys tweets just make him look like a weirdo, and there's thousands of them. There's zero chance Disney will go near him with a barge pole after these tweets were highlighted, it shows how little understanding the actors have of Disney's brand that they've even bothered to come out to defend him.

But Disney knew about them before they hired him.

Are there really 10,000 deleted tweets? I only saw a screenshot of about 20.

Eurofighter · 31 Jul 2018 at 11:09

It's not acceptable but it was a long time ago, assuming he apologises he should be forgiven.

marktruman · 31 Jul 2018 at 11:36

aardvark said:
americans, they love their sky fairies

They also love their double standards

take the Weistein case for example, they all knew he was dodgy but didnt say anything because they wanted jobs, then when it all came out they were like " oh yeah, come to think of it, he was a bloody creep. That explains time he pulled his penis out in front of me "

MikeTheNative · 31 Jul 2018 at 11:41

marktruman said:
They also love their double standards

take the Weistein case for example, they all knew he was dodgy but didnt say anything because they wanted jobs, then when it all came out they were like " oh yeah, come to think of it, he was a bloody creep. That explains time he pulled his penis out in front of me "

This is what doesn't sit right for me with that whole scandal. This was happening for years and everyone knew about it but people would rather safeguard their careers than tell the truth. I think it was a journalist in the end who took the career risk and published the story then all the people jumped in when they knew it was safe.

Sirrel Squirrel · 31 Jul 2018 at 11:56

Or Frankie Boyle, probably a bit worse than Carr

Diddums · 31 Jul 2018 at 12:01

Frankie Boyle is about as funny as injecting AIDS straight in to your eyeballs.

godinman · 31 Jul 2018 at 12:06

Eurofighter said:
It's not acceptable but it was a long time ago, assuming he apologises he should be forgiven.

There is no forgiveness with trial by social media. How can there be when the boundaries of punishment aren't defined?

Yadda · 31 Jul 2018 at 12:14

Diddums said:
Frankie Boyle is about as funny as injecting AIDS straight in to your eyeballs.

At least he writes original jokes.

Roar87 · 31 Jul 2018 at 13:41

VincentHanna said:
But Disney knew about them before they hired him.

Are there really 10,000 deleted tweets? I only saw a screenshot of about 20.

It doesn't matter that they knew before they hired him, it's the fact that these tweets have now been highlighted and are now in the public domain so to speak. It damages their brand if they're now known to be associated with someone who posts things like this. If they knew beforehand, and he deleted all the tweets, and it never surfaced, there wouldn't be a problem. It's not some moral standards they go by, it's purely a reputational thing.