I was originally very upset when I heard about James Gunn's horrible tweets (and yes they're horrible, no matter how much he's only joking or he doesn't really mean them), and I knew nothing about his apology in 2012. So for me everything was very fresh, and I was as outraged as anyone, and my anger wasn't politically motivated or anything, I'm as liberal as anyone else, and what he said really was upsetting. I've had time to process everything now, and my emotional state has settled down, and I completely agree his crimes have been blown out of proportion, especially how things are going on.
I do feel
@Awesome Possum's absolutely justified bringing politics into this, because really bringing up his disgrace was totally politically motivated, and you know very well there's a real dichotomy with how these things are treated differently by liberals and conservatives when people on their side do bad things, and so few conservatives actually care about any victims. When a liberal person does something like this, his or her own people are the first to denounce him and ruin him, but when you have a conservative doing something so much worse his people will happily look away and want him honored, and
that's what's really so very frustrating.
And you know perfectly well James Gunn has no victims. Oh yes of course, people can be really upset by what he said, and his comments can totally be triggering and everything, but he never targeted any particular person, he never molested a child or abused a woman, or tried to deny rights to a transgender person. Not like Roy Moore who has real underage women as victims, and of course Republicans don't care, they'd still love to see him in political office, right? And of course Donald Trump as our biggest example, he's cheated on his wives, talked about sexually assaulting women, he's definitely sexually harassed women, and done much more, and no conservative cares about his victims. And Rosanne is a raging racist, and of course from a conservative perspective she's been persecuted by ABC, and you don't see any of them caring about her victims or anything.
You know conservatives are completely and absolutely morally bankrupt, and care only about power and dominance, and they don't care how awful their own people are as long as they're winning, and people like myself and Awesome Possum find this absolutely terrifying. And most of their followers look to us like they're brainwashed, believing false stories of freedom and fairness while their rights and agencies are taken away piece by piece, they're just so gleeful someone else is getting it worse than themselves right now.
And so what's troubling is you've got these alt-right people working so hard to disgrace someone like James Gunn, not because they care even one moment about what he said, because if they did they've got such worse offenders on their own side they'd be going after, but just because of politics, so absolutely this whole thing's a political discussion. Yes James definitely shouldn't have ever said those things, he's totally wrong, and yes it's his words ultimately getting him in trouble, but that's totally not at all the point, right? So you've got conservatives who don't care about people at all, being so gleeful how liberals destroy one of their own advocates, while they toast their horrendous monster sitting in the White House right now, among many others on their side much worse than James.
And I'm even seeing people in this thread, pretending to be all morally upright, when like from some people here I've seen nothing but disgusting misogyny in so many other discussions on this message board, your outrage feels totally fake, cheering on a "gotcha" type moment or something.
This is really hard for a lot of people, many of us really loved James' work and his movies, and are really sad by what's happened. I feel it's so difficult, because I want him to keep making movies, and at the same time I know what he said was wrong and I'm disgusted by it, but I'm also realizing how long ago it was and while bad you've really got to consider everything going on and context. And knowing it's all brought up by people who don't for one second give a single care at all to how his words may have hurt people, that's what's really frustrating and 100% makes any conversations about his firing political. So please don't pretend any kind of political aspect of what's going on here is like a diversion from his story, because it's totally the center of his story. Those people who are pretending they're so upset by his transphobic comments are trying to strip away transgender rights, and while they're pretending they're traumatized by his pedophilia jokes are trying to get known pedophiles elected to office.
