Disney fires James Gunn from 'Guardians of the Galaxy' after old tweets unearthed by Cernovich

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The Hill



Director James Gunn has been fired from the upcoming movie sequel "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" after old tweets containing offensive jokes about pedophilia and rape were unearthed by far-right activists.

Disney confirmed Gunn's firing in a statement Friday.

"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn told Variety.

Gunn's firing occurred just hours after messages from pundits Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, -- who are known for pushing conspiracy theories, including about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer -- went viral with images of old tweets from Gunn joking about pedophilia and other sexual crimes.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/398114-disney-director-fired-after-old-tweets-unearthed-by-far-right

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Disney rushes to judgment and caves to rape apologist, Pizzagate nut and Set Rich troofer "Weird Mike" Cernovich digging up 9-year-old facetious posts (which Gunn apologized for years ago) and distorting their context, handing the neo-nazi alt right another scalp and ruining a career.

Did they not learn anything from what MSNBC went through with the Seder smear? And now they've killed the creative direction of one of their most successful franchises.

The moral watchdog, in action:

[Alt-Orange]

1. Gunn was one of the most vocal against the Dump

So this is just an Alt-Right hitjob.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. For the life of me, I don't understand why men make these kinds of "jokes"

Especially on social media.

Rape is not funny - EVER

Pedophilia is not funny - EVER

While I think Disney overreacted, I also think Gunn was a bonehead and I hope Mike Cernovich dies from steroid abuse.

[Buzz cook]

3. Here's the joke

"I'm doing a big Hollywood film adaptation of The Giving Tree, with a happy ending - the tree grows back and gives the kid a blow job."

Obviously a bad joke but just as obviously a joke, not an endorsement of child rape.

On edit.
By the end of the story the "boy" is an adult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Tree#Plot_summary

[metalbot]

4. Have you read some of the other tweets?

Disney isn't being melodramatic when it's saying they are "indefensible".

[Docreed2003]

6. They apparently didn't mind it when they hired him

Gunn has been very honest about his past tweets when he viewed himself as a provocateur, and those tweets were current during the OME frame they hired him to write and direct the first GotG.

[ansible]

12. I think the bigger issue here is why he'd tweet these kind of things to begin with

[Docreed2003]

13. Again, I'm not trying to take up for the guy

But if you're familiar with his career early on, outrageous, taboo, offensive stuff was his wheelhouse. Gunn has apologized for this in the past and says he's a different person, going so far as removing all the tweets. These are all PRIOR to Disney hiring him for GotG. For Disney to act shocked about them now is just not believable to me, they had to have known about the tweets.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. I've known middle school boys who had more class and better judgement

Why would anyone think these things are funny or okay, EVER?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Holy hand grenades !

Not knowing who this was, I looked up his tweets. Sweet Geeesus, this is one sick puppy if he EVER thought that that kind of commentary was amusing. To who ???

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. Family Guy and South Park do worse

And both are on air. Hell, people celebrate MacFarlane as some forward-thinking visionary.

[Docreed2003]

14. This...agree a hundred percent

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. Please provide examples

While South Park and Family Guy push the envelope, I don't recall jokes about pedophilia.

[Lib4lif3]

22. Here you go.

Quagmire: (subtitled) Hey, can you guys knock it off? I’m banging a chick with epilepsy and you’re giving her a seizure. Actually, keep it up. Everything is seizing. It’s great.

Peter: Women will always band together to stop an offensive art exhibit from coming to town, so I’ve arranged for all my photos of baby wieners to be put on display.

Cleveland: Oh, Peter, I’m gonna have to call the police on this.

Peter: What? Why? It’s to get our wives back together.

Cleveland: Peter, these are hundreds of naked babies in suggestive situations. And their time stamped as far back as 1998, which is way before we had this idea.

Peter: I need help!

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. Pretty gross

I'm surprised they made it past the censors and I still don't think it's funny.

[tammywammy]

26. The old guy with a walker is a pedophile.

They're constantly making jokes about him and how he wants to fuck Chris.

[John Fante]

29. One of the neighbors (Herbert) is a creepy pedophile.

I'm not against gallows humor per se, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't find "Family Guy" hysterically funny, but it's astonishing what that show gets away with.

[Cold War Spook]

25. I think Family Guy is funny.

If the show kept picking on just a few groups of people I would not like it, but they pick on every type of person. They even have a talking dog that has sex with women including getting one pregnant and he has a son, human, by her. Nothing is sacred.

[Buzz cook]

20. No I have not. You should post them

And explain why they are indefensible.

I would have thought the
ops link would have had the worst example. Apparently not according to you.

[metalbot]

24. See post 12

The person I responded to used one of the least offensive.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. OMG boy-tree love!

[Bettie]

10. At the end of that book

the kid has become an old man.

[Devil Child]

7. Despicable move by Disney

Cernovich is a character assassin and nothing he says should ever be considered outside of alt-right cesspools.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. Cernovich is the bottom inch

of the septic tank of a Turkish prison.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. "Despicable move by Disney"

Considering the main business Disney is in, children's entertainment, it is perfectly reasonable for them to fire someone who made a twitter joke about baby rape.

And yes, Cernovich is scum.

[haele]

16. Problem is, they knew and dealt with six years ago.

And he hasn't posted any BS "edgy" crap since 2011. He fully acknowledged back then that what he had put out in public was unacceptable and stupidly hurtful to people who actually had been harmed in similar situations and apologized, never doing anything like that again. He grew the f*** up.

Unlike Roseanne Barr, who continues to be her old bad self even now.
And that's how Disney f'd up.
They let a proudly self-proclaimed a-hole who regularly says worse in public on a regular basis - who has a hard-on for "kicking hippies and lib'ruls" - use their organization to punish a director who he personally had a political beef with.

Do we acquies to digging up everyone's high school or college years to hunt down any mean, putrid attempts at "edgy adult humor" someone may have uttered just to destroy political "enemies"? I know "s/he should never had said that" but everyone is guilty of saying potentially hurtful things or snark. Except, of course, for Ned Flanders.

Haele

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Do we acquiesce?

We may not, but corporations are, for the most part, interested only in earnings. So yeah, they will fire you for past egregious public statements, no matter who brought them back into the limelight, or for what purpose.

With these tweets out there, Gunn was on borrowed time with Disney to begin with.

He'll be fine. He has a seven-figure net worth, and now he can go back to being the edge lord he's wanted to be deep down during his ride with The Mouse.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. What a guy

[JackInGreen]

27. Yep

This thread is a perfect example of us eating our own.
If you're ever confused why we lose, see above.

[tenderfoot]

28. I just stopped in to read posts defending Cernovich

like flies to shit.