Marvel actors supporting James Gunn

goldrush

The cast of the Marvel ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ movies have released an open letter in support of James Gunn, the director who was recently fired because of very offensive tweets he’d sent out years ago.

It’s important to note that they are not supporting the jokes he made - there are hundreds of comments on the post accusing them of supporting a pedophile and an abuser. They are, however, supporting the person he has become and the apologies he’s made.

Thoughts on this? Should someone be judged solely on jokes they made years ago (the tweets were in very bad taste, and there were a lot of them), or do they have a right to prove they’ve changed? Are the actors taking a huge risk by standing up for their friend? Or are they right to support someone who they know well, and truly believe is a different person now?

Here is the letter, posted on Chris Pratt’s Instagram page and signed by the main cast:

brianlux

I'm not sure (at least in America) that we recognize the idea of reform and rehabilitation. It makes sense to me, anyway, that rehabilitation of all sorts is somewhat rare and even more scarcely recognized because rehab and reform are not encouraged.  Look at our prisons- how often are they really trying to reform inmates?

If Gunn  made apologies that seem sincere and his behavior has changed, I say give the guy a chance.

Jason P

The internet twitter and comment sections ... vigilant for the next outrage and ready to burn souls followed by playing some candy crush before going to bed

cincybearcat

I think we give far too much credit for old tweets and far to little for current behavior.

This rush to ruin anyone that makes a mistake is ridiculous.  We all do stupid things. In high school while I wasn’t mean to homosexuals directly, I used to use the word “gay” to mean stupid. I also use to think it was strange and we could put them all on 1 island and see if they’d survive....as if that was any indicator of anything. Thankfully I was allowed to grow up and learn and become a better person.

Spiritual_Chaos

"reform and rehabilitation"

He made some shitty jokes 10 years ago. Come on now.

tempo_n_groove

Comedians have a tough go at things nowadays.

You can't joke about anything off-colour or taboo anymore.

I read his tweets and you could tell is joking about things but I guess people take offense to everything.

KC138045

tempo_n_groove said:

Comedians have a tough go at things nowadays.

You can't joke about anything off-colour or taboo anymore.

I read his tweets and you could tell is joking about things but I guess people take offense to everything.

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dignin

How Marvel film director James Gunn was demonised by the alt-right

The Guardians of the Galaxy director was fired after old, offensive tweets came to light. But who was behind the revelations?


Gunn was removed as director of the third film in the successful Disney/Marvel series when a number of years-old tweets were dug up and spotlighted by alt-right conspiracists, spearheaded by the blogger Mike Cernovich – previously best-known for the ridiculous “Pizzagate” conspiracyand with a track record for mendacious claims about left-leaning figures’ involvement in paedophilia.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/01/james-gunn-alt-right-marvel-film-director-tweets