>Good guy director gets fired after far-right pundit digs up past he repeatedly apologized for
>Tumblr thinks this is okay
New rule, starting now. Anyone making a snarky comment about this gets unfollowed because that’s gross
>28 year old my little pony fan thinks I value their opinion on someone getting fired for making rape jokes
hahahahaha here I was, legit hoping this discourse wouldn’t show up on my blog but, there it is. wow.
#1) The person who dragged up the pedophilia jokes about James Gunn is none other than far-right blogger Mike Cernowich. You know, the guy behind fucking #PIZZAGATE.
#2) James Gunn already apologized for previous behavior. Like, several years ago. In 2012. Before #MeToo. Before ANY of this. And his behavior since then proves a marked change.
#3) In fact, James Gunn’s behavior changed so radically that he became the target of Mike Cernovich. Because Gunn’s been pretty outspoken about our current president. Which didn’t sit well with President Pizzagate, not one bit.
#4) So Mike Cernovich finding and released all the old tweets during SDCC was NOT a coincidence. This was targeted to Disney, to see if Mike can wank himself over forcing the biggest major conglomerate to make a marketing decision in order to get ONE GUY rightfully furious about Trump out of the business.
#5) Look, I think James Gunn’s tweets are pretty damn horrible. But to put it on the same level as someone like Harvey Weinstein is disingenuous.
#6) We’re not winning any wars with the mentality of “problematic people are forever doomed for having once done problematic things, even if they’ve changed.” And like stated above, James Gunn is NOT another Weinstein. I’ve said homophobic things in the past, and I’m A LESBIAN for fuck’s sake!!
#7) Dave Bautista isn’t the only one who’s on James Gunn’s side in this. The entire GOTG cast is on his side.
#8) In the end this isn’t just about GOTG. This isn’t about Disney. This isn’t about James Gunn’s career (he’ll bounce back). This is about Right-winger trolls weaponizing accountability. And it’s fucking gross.
This isn’t about Disney. This isn’t about James Gunn’s career (he’ll bounce back). This is about Right-winger trolls weaponizing accountability.And it’s fucking gross.
If James Gunn really cared he’d at least have yannow. Deleted the tweet
If Disney really cared they’d at least have yannow. Not hired him in the first place instead of combing through his social media AFTER someone brought it up instead of, yannow. Doing that before they hired him like any other company with a reputation to uphold.
One other thing: people think James Gunn is what made Guardians great and that the results can’t be repeated with him gone, is the gist of the defense. That knocks down the talent the actors, writers, cgi, props, costumes, and other people pour into the work. The director really is just a person that tells other people what to do. That’s it.
He apologized for the tweets but left them up because he wasn’t hiding what he said - he owned up to that and didn’t pretend it never happened.
The issue here is people who criticize Trump can be taken down by alt-right by weaponizing left wing purity/perfection politics. This is the same strategy that helped put Trump is in power.
Hillary Clinton isn’t perfect therefor both are bad, stay home, let Trump win that will show them.
It’s stupid to ignore the agenda behind the artificially created outrage over Gunn.
And I don’t even thing Gunn was that great. There are issues with those movies and those are worth criticizing and had been criticized for years. And that’s fine.
But this thing where the right wing can bring down any liberal who critiques Trump/gets in the way of their agenda by painting them as problematic is an issue. Because it creates a double standard where literal Nazi in the alt right don’t get half the criticism as liberals who don’t uphold some unreachable standard of perfection.
Because the right is morally bankrupt and won’t be held accountable and the left is too concerned with being perfect to not tear itself apart trying to purge anyone who falls short of perfection. It’s a double standard and it’s allowing alt right people to have power.
The same crowd is already using the same strategy against Jewish creators, Jewish women in particular. But, who cares? Certainly not tumblr. They are too busy celebrating Taika Watiti replacing Gunn.
