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

Freedom of of speech ( and any kind of freedom) is dead! Bow to pc or die! We can fire you, publicly humiliate you, even throw you to jail. It doesn't matter if you were kidding, drunk, stressed or emotionally compromised when you post something, anything online. It can and will be used against you in the court of law and beyond. There is only one right way of thinking, our way and if you dare disagree you are a racist, rapist, fascist, fanatic, terrible person in general. The law is retroactive for any past statements as well. We do this in the service of community, diversity, democracy and love. Hail pc!

Sounds ridiculous. If you're a celebrity, it's probably the safest to not say anything about anything anymore. There's always someone somewhere who has nothing going on in their life and will claim to be offended in order to fill said empty life with some attention.

Crude jokes are fine.....in moderation, but this dude has a serious obsession with pedophilia and Hollywood already has a problem with pedophiles.

This issue is more complicated then just a comedian making some jokes. - Without actually seeing what the content of the offensive tweets or whatever they were are, it hard to make a call. If the tweets are Family Guy tongue in cheek paroding - then it is harmless, if it is a call to action for child molestors everywhere to act .... then regardless of when something was said, it can hurt alot of people.

But I do understand Disney's position that employees over 200k people, not counting the myriad of subsidiaries. Some protestors with James Gunns tweets could be wildly damaging and put real people out of work, throw shade where ever you want but it doesnt change the fact that real world people are getting hurt and not marvel comic ones.

I personally believe that free speech is a right for all whether they live in a country that allows it allows or not. And nothing for the sake of comedy should be off limits. But just like calling in a swatting, yelling fire in a theatre or promoting an action that is a crime like that of raping an underage child is very wrong, and having someone like that as the poster child of your company is crazy morally and financially.

But again, without know the tweets - I couldn't make a call nor should anyone else.

Whether or not Disney is a squeaky-clean corporation behind the scenes, they had to be seen to denounce Gunn's behaviours and attitudes to protect their corporate identity. Do I agree with Gunn's firing? Yes. Am I happy about it? No.

The big question is why did Disney hire him in the first place? A company that's so worried about their public appearance should be vetting potential employees far more closely.

We're firing people for Tweets made a decade ago now? As if I didn't have enough reasons to not use Twitter.

Oh poor baby generation... he made twitter pedo joke buhuhu... sad times lol. I dont care about the movies anyway.

what were the actual jokes he made? I'd need to see them to say whether he was justly fired.

But if they're a decade old, that's pretty extreme. If everyone took Disney's stance, he'll never get another job again, and neither would anyone else who's ever made a mistake in their life or said something they shouldn't have. How many people have lived a squeaky clean life and never made a mistep or bad joke?

I actually read the tweets, and to be honest I’ve seen other people post worse. All the tweets ranged from years ago. I’m sure Gunn stopped paying somebody and that somebody leaked this. This all reeks like blackmail to me.

So here we have a giant, tax-dodging corporation with a historical connection to the real, actual Nazis, who made some of the most disgusting racist cartoons in modern history, firing a guy who made some jokes 10 years ago because they were "inconsistent with our studio's values".

**** off Disney. You are a corporation. You don't have values. I am so sick of hearing morally bankrupt fictional legal entities talk about their "values". They don't even know what that word means.

And now they are hypocrites on top of it all.

More proof that society sadly lives in the past 24/7.

Back in 1938, Disney didn't hire a woman because they didn't consider women for creative positions. Disney would not be thriving today if everyone shared their zero tolerance stance.

FU Disney, a bunch of lame ass morons running that company, had it not been for Gunn there would a been no Guardians movies worth talking about. so much for GOTG 3 probably gonna be just like they ruined Pirates of the caribbian and StarWars.

Should probably give Gunn's HDD a check just to be safe.

oh disney knew about it. but the bigger issue the the mob lynch where doing now. sadly the first to go was due process and thought.

I think this was taken out of context by Disney and shouldn't have fired him from such an old post.

Even though I think the firing excuse was wrong, I think Guardians 2 sucked compared to the first movie. Hopefully someone new will bring it back to its roots. Just my .02¢

THIS. IS. BULLSHIT.