Guardians Of The Galaxy 3's James Gunn Fired By Disney After Old Tweets Surface

Twitter was a mistake

lol social media only exists to expose your past and to screw you over in the future. So glad I'm not apart of it. Except for posting stupid comments on this website...

Let the record show that the people who eagerly support a US President who advocated executing the wives and children of enemy militants, felt that the director of a fucking comic book movie just had to go for his blue jokes.

Another painful reminder that the fight against political correctness and de facto puritanism has precious little coherent constituency -- certainly not along traditional lines and institutions. Political correctness looks not only like saying you can't joke about things like race and rape, but also like shitting your pants over an NFL player kneeling during the anthem. It's a completely cynical calculation without an iota of principle -- instead of really standing against PC culture, the far-right enforces their own strains and is more than willing to weaponize the far-left strains if they think it will take down a critic of the silver-spoon man-baby. Whether it's breaking ranks with the regressive identity politickers or the Trump-humping cultists, the struggle against this pop terrorism is real.

Sorry pal, only South Park and Family Guy can get away with that. Still, I think you did a good job.

To be honest, I've gone to live stand up shows and heard worse than what he tweeted. Not justifying it, but I was expecting much more shocking content than what I read.

Didnt see racism or gender targeting. The rape themed were the biggest problem.

Was it in bad taste? Absolutely.

Was it something he shouldve been fired for? Not so fast. I think Disney went overboard on the virtue signaling here.

A solid, heartfelt apology (like the one he gave) wouldve probably been fine.

Then you have the conspiracy theorizing "he was a Trump critic" McCarthyism of the whole situation.

Twitter is costing people more jobs than the Great Depression.

He has my support, he is a good director and his recent works were some of the best Marvel had to offer, most of us had an edgy past at some point and we all change as we grow older. Alan Horn can go to hell for all I care, his virtue signalling only fool those who live in the SJW bubble.

See, this is what's so BS about social media. Anything you say is just there forever. There's no room to make mistakes or say something you later realises is a really, really stupid opinion.

I mean I said and thought plenty of stuff years ago that makes me *cringe* now. I doubt there's anyone in the world who doesn't have the same experience.

We shouldn't judge someone on views they *once* held if they have grown as a person and renounced those beliefs.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. This is what u get when u endorse attacking people for wrong think.

Big reason why I never post anything on social media apart from retweets/sharing even if what you post is a joke someone somewhere will take it the wrong way.

Professional relationships in our age - if people don't like your sense of humour, your ass is gonna get fired. Oh, the joke in question was made years and years ago and you have changed a lot as a person? Nah, you did it on Twitter, still gon' get fired son.

And Disney don't even pretend that this isn't virtue signalling. Whatever... I'm not even particularly into these movies. I just hate when the real joke is how absurd our culture is nowadays.

Your past can always come back to bite you

It’s not nice what he did so I guess Disney made right move. James has destroyed his career.