Have you seen this story?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...-letter-chris-pratt-zoe-saldana-a8470786.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...-letter-chris-pratt-zoe-saldana-a8470786.html
The worst part of this is the guy that got him fired, tweeted rape jokes.
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Both men are wrong.
I honestly haven't followed this but I did over hear my dd's boyfriend tell her that he was fired because it came out he was a pedophile.
So all he did was tweet some offensive jokes and he is neither a rapist or a pedo? I don't care one way or another about this man, but it really seems crazy to me to fire someone over some jokes he "told" years ago.
And I agree @FlightlessDuck there is definitely a double standard when it comes to things like this.
There is no actual evidence he has done anything illegal. He joked about things like pedophilia and rape. His statement was that at the time he was paid to be provocative as an online character.
It is an illustration on why it is important to always act a certain way online because it can come back to kill you later. Teens now need to keep this in mind as they look to enter the workforce in a decade. What they post now could easily keep them from getting a job in a decade.
Disney really should have also done a better job of research to know if this was out there and, if they decided they wanted to hire him anyway, get in front of it. If it was indeed a "character" he was playing online and they were able to talk about it in advance they could get past it. When they wait for the media to expose it they really had no choice.
I agree, but I think we still need to use common sense when it comes to things like this. Firing someone for posting a joke, even an offensive one, seems to be a knee jerk reaction without any common sense applied to it.
Apparently thousands.I read the letter from the stars of GOTG yesterday on Twitter. There was a response to that letter from someone who had collected all of James Gunn's tweets that alluded to pedophilia over the years, and I just don't understand how you could make THAT many jokes about children in that way and not have some sort of issue in your private life. One or two, fine - not funny, but people like to make offensive jokes. But dozens??? I feel like it'll eventually come out that he's a pedophile.
I read the letter from the stars of GOTG yesterday on Twitter. There was a response to that letter from someone who had collected all of James Gunn's tweets that alluded to pedophilia over the years, and I just don't understand how you could make THAT many jokes about children in that way and not have some sort of issue in your private life. One or two, fine - not funny, but people like to make offensive jokes. But dozens??? I feel like it'll eventually come out that he's a pedophile.
Apparently thousands.
Are we going to prosecute all people, who say stupid or offensive things, in the court of public opinion? Fire 'em? Just asking,
This is my thought. And where do we draw the line as to what’s offensive? Is it racism? Sexism? Sexual talk against minors? And who determines where the line is?Gunn says they were all from ten years ago, which is not true. Some were from 5 - 6 years ago, which would have been right around the first GOTG movie went into production. Gunn should have known better. Disney should have probably avoided him all together or told him to delete the tweets years ago (because this came up before).
I don't feel bad for the guy. The tweets weren't funny. I do think it's interesting how we don't hold everybody to the same standard. Look at R. Kelly: dude had sex with minors, yet still has new albums come out. Roman Polanski gets standing ovations at the Oscars. Woody Allen is still making movies. Michael Richards, meanwhile, is still a pariah. Don't get me wrong, Richards was wrong. But do you see the serious lack of consistency here?
He has the right to freedom of speech, but not the right to freedom from the consequences of that speech.
This is why he and every other idiot out there needs to pay attention to what they say on social media sites like Twitter. I have no sympathy for the guy. I love the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but oh well.
It's all just very hypocritical...it's not ok for Roseanne to tweet offensive stuff. It's ok for her to get fired. But because it's the GOTG writer/director & the cast & everybody loves his movies, then the movie studio should hire him back? Sorry, but no.