if Disney actually cared he wouldn’t have had a position to be fired from.
That’s what makes this so much harder to swallow. It’s not like these tweets were ever a secret.
Which basically means either one of two things, that Disney has just succumbed to the wishes of alt-right trolls who got mad because Gunn made fun of Trump and Ben Shapiro, or that there was some other reason they wanted to fire him and they’re using this as an excuse (which raises a whole bunch of other questions).
No matter what, Disney’s sending a message for sure, but it’s a very confusing one, to say the least.
Disney fired Roseanne for her one terrible tweet that got publicity while her twitter history had many more. This James Gunn thing seems pretty consistent.
Not actually. Roseanne had a history of tweets that no one at Disney apparently cared about. While the show was airing, she continued tweeting crazy stuff. It wasn’t until she tweeted something that crossed the line that she was let go. She was fired for a tweet she made the same exact day she tweeted it. An important difference.
Meanwhile, they dragged their feet on Lasseter, and had no problem employing Johnny Depp just recently. They’re all over the place, to say the least.
I think Gunn and Roseanne are similar in that Disney doesn’t vet their twitter activity, nor do they care until it gets publicity, whether it’s an old or new tweet. Roseanne’s new “Planet of the Apes” tweet got publicity. Gunn’s old “pedo jokes” got publicity. Only then does Disney take action to try and distance themselves.
Yes there are certainly similarities, but the justification is a lot weaker this time. There were plenty of people who were mad about Roseanne coming back because of things she said in the past. Disney only did something when she gave them reason to in the present day, with no reference made to anything from the past in their decision.