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Yet another victim of the #MeToo Movement

the guardians of the galaxy guy...fox dug up some old ass tweets from 10 years ago...career ruined now.
 
probably not an metoo thing..more of a outrage thing. Either way, I'm sick of this current culture.
 
RIP Gotg3

So they dug up old tweets from a decade ago & he got fired over them? Are people not allowed to grow up & mature anymore?
 
Kaido said:
RIP Gotg3

So they dug up old tweets from a decade ago & he got fired over them? Are people not allowed to grow up & mature anymore?
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Not on social media. Everything we post on there is ripe for someone to use it against you at a later date. Hence why I don't use it.
 
To make this even more farcical, its a fucking neo-Nazi that was trying to get Gunn fired because of his anti-Turmp Tweets that was digging for something to fire up false outrage over (and blatantly ignoring the context of the stuff).

Disney knew about this shit (maybe not specific tweets, but they sure as shit knew about Gunn's previous work, which absolutely was similar in tone to this type of shit), that's how Gunn got his fame in the first place (doing shock art movies and stuff). They just don't want to have to put up with it because they're chickenshits and probably wanting to keep from having to deal with Turmp trying to intentionally fuck them over (like on the Fox acquisition) or something.
 
Kaido said:
RIP Gotg3

So they dug up old tweets from a decade ago & he got fired over them? Are people not allowed to grow up & mature anymore?
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The man is 52 years old. Just when do you expect he will grow up? According to the article, he had offensive tweets about pedophilia, rape, the Holocaust, 9/11 and AIDS, and apparently never thought there was enough wrong with them to delete any.
 
allisolm said:
The man is 52 years old. Just when do you expect he will grow up? According to the article, he had offensive tweets about pedophilia, rape, the Holocaust, 9/11 and AIDS, and apparently never thought there was enough wrong with them to delete any.
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Well, he works at Disney now - as far as I can see, his current behavior hasn't been juvenile. A decade ago, sure, but he works for a family-oriented company now & seems to have gotten smarter about his recent social media postings, and is also a good worker who delivers well-received films. I understand Disney's position in this, and why they felt they needed to can him, but what's the difference between him tweeting out that stuff a decade ago vs. a comedian like Dave Chappelle tweeting the same topics out? To be clear, I'm not defending the topics, it just seems hypocritical that we pick & choose who is allowed to say what publicly. Funny people or comedians can get away with all kinds of stuff any time they want, but it's okay to dig up stuff from ten years ago & fire someone over it? That's like your boss going back to your college pictures, seeing you drunk at a party, and firing you over it. And he may be 52 years old, but I know plenty of immature people who are even older than that, haha.
 
zerocool84 said:
Not on social media. Everything we post on there is ripe for someone to use it against you at a later date. Hence why I don't use it.
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I'm so glad there's no record of all of the stupid stuff I did earlier in life. The worst they'll find on me is my 2004 posts on these forums where I didn't even know how to setup a wireless router, lol.

Not because I live a boring life or anything
 
allisolm said:
The man is 52 years old. Just when do you expect he will grow up? According to the article, he had offensive tweets about pedophilia, rape, the Holocaust, 9/11 and AIDS, and apparently never thought there was enough wrong with them to delete any.
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You know whats really sad, is that this man is apparently too much of a scum bag to make cartoon films, but he would be just fine running the country.
 
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I don't have 'social media', but he couldn't delete those old posts?

I don't even know who he is, but it's slightly amusing to me if he's made boat loads of money directing movies for a company and now is fired and deemed reprehensible then what about his prior work? He was reprehensible back then but where's the outcry for his previous work?
 
paperfist said:
I don't have 'social media', but he couldn't delete those old posts?

I don't even know who he is, but it's slightly amusing to me if he's made boat loads of money directing movies for a company and now is fired and deemed reprehensible then what about his prior work? He was reprehensible back then but where's the outcry for his previous work?
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They were from 10+ years ago apparently. So it was really a matter of remembering and scrolling through shit that you posted 10 years ago... Not something that people often do.

Personally, I find it fucking ridiculous to fire someone based on an action of 10 years ago... something that no one noticed that COULD have been deleted if he noticed. Either way - no one of any notable form did notice or care other than shit media. If you take actions to fire people involved in multi-million dollar movies based on that, you're simply retarded. I mean, I won't stop you from making retarded actions, keep going if you want to....
 
paperfist said:
I don't have 'social media', but he couldn't delete those old posts?

I don't even know who he is, but it's slightly amusing to me if he's made boat loads of money directing movies for a company and now is fired and deemed reprehensible then what about his prior work? He was reprehensible back then but where's the outcry for his previous work?
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There's always a record somewhere...nothing on the Internet is ever truly deleted.

He is famous for directing Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2. First one made over $750 million & second one made over $850 million. He has a personal net worth of $40 million, according to google. He did a great job on both movies, especially the first one - it was a real sleeper hit.

Their loss.
 
So, which bottom-line do they cater to? The one where this guy makes them boatloads of money directing movies, or the one where he tarnishes their corporate identity? There are many other move directors to be had.
 
Carson Dyle said:
So, which bottom-line do they cater to? The one where this guy makes them boatloads of money directing movies, or the one where he tarnishes their corporate identity? There are many other move directors to be had.
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It's just weird that it's happening now. Forget the tweets from a decade ago, go look up what he directed ten years ago. Definitely not Disney-friendly.
 
I heard about this controversy and what sort of topics the tweets covered prior to actually reading the tweets. So, when I finally looked up a compilation image, I was really expecting some bad stuff. Maybe the compilation that I saw didn't have everything, but I really don't get the outrage here. Do his tweets include jokes on sensitive subjects? Yes. Do his tweets suggest support for said sensitive subjects? No. In other words, his tweets don't suggest that he is in a pedophile or has anything against transgenders. Of course, that's not even touching on these being at least a decade old.

allisolm said:
The man is 52 years old. Just when do you expect he will grow up? According to the article, he had offensive tweets about pedophilia, rape, the Holocaust, 9/11 and AIDS, and apparently never thought there was enough wrong with them to delete any.
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From what I heard, he acknowledged the content in the tweets and apologized about them a few years back... before the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. If I had to guess, he didn't delete them because in a way... doing that feels like you want to forget who you were rather than owning up to it?
 
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