Current Events > James Gunn has been fired from Guardians of the Galaxy after controversial tweet

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This whole charade is fucking ridiculous

We all make offensive jokes like this in our private life all the time. Yet we're supposed to collectively pretend to be outraged and appalled because some asshole did it in a tweet. It's all a formality, it's all a mirage, nobody actually cares about these jokes. Not Disney, not the media, not me, not you, not anybody. They were dumb offensive jokes that we all make. Fuck man, this outrage culture is so dumb
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why the fuck do people even still use twitter
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On_The_Edge posted...

This whole charade is fucking ridiculous

We all make offensive jokes like this in our private life all the time. Yet we're supposed to collectively pretend to be outraged and appalled because some asshole did it in a tweet. It's all a formality, it's all a mirage, nobody actually cares about these jokes. Not Disney, not the media, not me, not you, not anybody. They were dumb offensive jokes that we all make. Fuck man, this outrage culture is so dumb

Quality gimmick post
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Conflict posted...

TBH after seeing who caused this to happen I actually want James Gunn to get his job back

It was a smear campaign by an alt-right piece of garbage who actually endorses pedophilia (Roy Moore), thinks date rape isn't a real thing, and doesn't give two shits about rape

Not to mention was accused of it himself.
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marc55 posted...

KCJ5062 posted...

"Okay, as soon as I sign this paper, you're hired. Before I sign it, I need you to go home, look at every single social media account you have, and read everything you have ever said on them. EVERYTHING. Twitter, Facebook, forums, fucking Amazon reviews. No exceptions. I don't care if it takes you a week. If anything about any particular post looks even vaguely controversial, you delete the damn thing. Make it completely inaccessible to the public. Get the admin to delete it if you can't. Close your entire account, if you have to. When you have thoroughly scourged your entire online history, then come back, and I will sign this paper. Got it?"

he did delete them

Only recently.
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Slayerblade11 posted...

http://archive.is/MdOm6

This is one of his most offensive comments

His humor is pretty fucked up. Dunno if he should be fired for it.

Did he link the video? Looks like a vid window at the bottom there, and is that actual child porn there? I heard Huddleston was actually convicted of it . . If this is true, how is this not the Tweet the stories are leading with? Those comments thatdid get published arent half as fucked up.

This comment just made me realize I do have a line for humor, and this crossed it. And I used to know some real bad dead baby jokes and shit (which I was smart enough not to publish on social media, Jesus).
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He coulda literally paid someone to scour his social media history for anything controversial. He brought this on himself
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Artemis86 posted...

Looks like a vid window at the bottom there, and is that actual child porn there?

It's not
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nicklebro posted...

Man, conservatives sure are in their feelings these days. These snowflakes need to man up and stop letting their emotions get the best of them.

I can only speak for myself and not other conservatives. I think his tweets are fucked up and horrible.

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Artemis86 posted...

Looks like a vid window at the bottom there, and is that actual child porn there?

It's not

Was it a link to the FB post? He himself says its a video. The title was "100 pubescent girls touch themselves," and supposedly the guy who shared it with him is now convicted of pedophilia. I get the sense that a vid entitled that wouldn't have actors above 18 in it. Just a hunch.

So at best he made a joke about masturbating to what sure SOUNDS like child porn, sent to him by an actual pedophile. That's . . . messed up.
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Artemis86 posted...

Was it a link to the FB post? He himself says its a video. The title was "100 pubescent girls touch themselves," and supposedly the guy who shared it with him is now convicted of pedophilia. I get the sense that a vid entitled that wouldn't have actors above 18 in it. Just a hunch.

I didn't click on it, nor am I going to, but from everything I gather from those who have it's girls singing the Madonna song, and not actually doing such activity.

Which, to be fair is still messed up, but not the same thing.
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gunplagirl posted...

On_The_Edge posted...

This whole charade is fucking ridiculous

We all make offensive jokes like this in our private life all the time. Yet we're supposed to collectively pretend to be outraged and appalled because some asshole did it in a tweet. It's all a formality, it's all a mirage, nobody actually cares about these jokes. Not Disney, not the media, not me, not you, not anybody. They were dumb offensive jokes that we all make. Fuck man, this outrage culture is so dumb

Quality gimmick post

he's right. the people who brought these tweets back up (they were found and discussed 6 years ago) do not give a fuck about what he said.

The Great Muta 22 posted...

I didn't click on it, nor am I going to, but from everything I gather from those who have it's girls singing the Madonna song, and not actually doing such activity.

Which, to be fair is still messed up, but not the same thing.

Ah, that makes sense. Not really feeling sorry for him tho, still messed up, just not illegal. Purge dat Twitter dude, you knew whi your employer was.
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The fact that James Gunn hadn't deleted the tweets when he was first reprimanded by Disney back in 2012 totally justifies this firing.
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This is what happens when you weaponize outrage. Nobody ever thinks their own weapon will be used against them. Gunn absolutely doesn't deserve to be fired, but neither did Roseanne, and a whole host of other people that have had their social media histories used against them. But these are the rules now. People were fine with this sort of mob mentality when it was against targets that they approved of, but now that it's starting to be used against them, all the sudden we need to be forgiving and understanding and just let these events slide. Pandora's Box has been opened, I suspect things aren't going to change anytime soon.

Gunn made those posts when he was 40. Nobody should buy the "he's grown" bullshit. Either this kind of thing is acceptable, or it's not, and that needs to apply evenly to everyone.
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Nah, Roseanne is a piece of shit who deserved everything she got
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s0nicfan posted...

This is what happens when you weaponize outrage. Nobody ever thinks their own weapon will be used against them. Gunn absolutely doesn't deserve to be fired, but neither did Roseanne, and a whole host of other people that have had their social media histories used against them. But these are the rules now. People were fine with this sort of mob mentality when it was against targets that they approved of, but now that it's starting to be used against them, all the sudden we need to be forgiving and understanding and just let these events slide. Pandora's Box has been opened, I suspect things aren't going to change anytime soon.

Gunn made those posts when he was 40. Nobody should buy the "he's grown" bullshit. Either this kind of thing is acceptable, or it's not, and that needs to apply evenly to everyone.

Roseanne's wasn't her social media "history" lmfao
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Conflict posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

I'm not losing sleep over this but its kinda dumb.

"This guy made this great and popular movies and is really good at what he does."

"Yeah but years ago he made some unfunny jokes."

"FIRE 'EM!"

I mean if you were burning to death in a housefire who would you want to save you?
1. A trained veteran fire-fighter who knows what he is doing but said dumb things 26 years ago

or

2. A fat guy called Bob who can barely run without toppling over but as far as you know he's completely PC all his life?

Do you know what Public Relations are

That's an evasion and you know it.

"This is a dumb thing to be angry about."
"Yes but don't you realize, the people are ANGRY about it!?"

Uhuh... Now maybe respond to the actual post?
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He both apologized for and deleted those tweets years ago. This is literally just someone testing public memory.
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Glad to see so many people standing up for him so far.
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Kitt posted...

Glad to see so many people standing up for him so far.

Yeah, makes it easy to tag pedo apologists.
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BillyKidd posted...

Kitt posted...

Glad to see so many people standing up for him so far.

Yeah, makes it easy to tag pedo apologists.

Well, I was talking about the other celebrities and people that he's worked with, but okay.
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The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.
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Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

I see we're still pretending that Roseanne is the only example of liberals going after conservatives using their social media as weapons against them.
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On_The_Edge posted...

This whole charade is fucking ridiculous

We all make offensive jokes like this in our private life all the time. Yet we're supposed to collectively pretend to be outraged and appalled because some asshole did it in a tweet. It's all a formality, it's all a mirage, nobody actually cares about these jokes. Not Disney, not the media, not me, not you, not anybody. They were dumb offensive jokes that we all make. Fuck man, this outrage culture is so dumb

but if people make racist jokes, they're fired. sjw mobs have doxxed people for racist jokes made in their own private life and gotten people fired. maybe you need to see that fire is being fought with fire.
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s0nicfan posted...

Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

I see we're still pretending that Roseanne is the only example of liberals going after conservatives using their social media as weapons against them.

I see you've already moved the goal posts lmfao. It's not longer "social media history" it's now just "social media".
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green butter posted...

there is literally no reason for anyone to be using twitter in 2018, at best you scream nonsense into a void, at worst you put your foot in your mouth and it's immortalized for all of eternity and your career is fucked instantly

So true. I've been saying this for years.
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Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

My point would still stand if the Roseanne debacle never happened.
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Bio1590 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

I see we're still pretending that Roseanne is the only example of liberals going after conservatives using their social media as weapons against them.

I see you've already moved the goal posts lmfao. It's not longer "social media history" it's now just "social media".

Oh fuck off with your deflections. You can add "history" back on there, my point doesn't change. And you're hyper focusing on Roseanne because I think you realize you have an indefensible position here so your only hope is to latch onto one bad example and then attempt to claim that that justifies every example that has ever happened.
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s0nicfan posted...

Bio1590 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

I see we're still pretending that Roseanne is the only example of liberals going after conservatives using their social media as weapons against them.

I see you've already moved the goal posts lmfao. It's not longer "social media history" it's now just "social media".

Oh fuck off with your deflections. You can add "history" back on there, my point doesn't change. And you're hyper focusing on Roseanne because I think you realize you have an indefensible position here so your only hope is to latch onto one bad example and then attempt to claim that that justifies every example that has ever happened.

No I'm "hyper-focusing" on Roseanne because that was your example and it was a terrible fucking example. Roseanne's "social media history" isn't what got her fired.
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Bio1590 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Bio1590 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Conflict posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The sooner liberals learn that weapons they use against others will eventually boomerang back against them, the better. The same rule will apply to hate speech laws in Europe.

We're still pretending this is a side effect of the Roseanne thing huh

I see we're still pretending that Roseanne is the only example of liberals going after conservatives using their social media as weapons against them.

I see you've already moved the goal posts lmfao. It's not longer "social media history" it's now just "social media".

Oh fuck off with your deflections. You can add "history" back on there, my point doesn't change. And you're hyper focusing on Roseanne because I think you realize you have an indefensible position here so your only hope is to latch onto one bad example and then attempt to claim that that justifies every example that has ever happened.

No I'm "hyper-focusing" on Roseanne because that was your example and it was a terrible fucking example. Roseanne's "social media history" isn't what got her fired.

Got'em
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So fucking unfair, next.

Should just cancel GotG3, it's gonna suck.
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