{"id":204477,"date":"2021-03-09T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204477"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:15:42","slug":"director-canceled-then-uncanceled-by-disney-defends-cancel-culture-its-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/director-canceled-then-uncanceled-by-disney-defends-cancel-culture-its-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Canceled, Then Uncanceled By Disney Defends Cancel Culture: \u2018It\u2019s Free Speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdirector-canceled-then-uncanceled-by-disney-defends-cancel-culture-its-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-983908322.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, Hollywood director James Gunn, who was dismissed by Disney after old social media posts of his joking about rape and child molestation surfaced in 2018 then was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/james-gunn-hired-back-direct-guardians-galaxy-3-paul-bois\">rehired<\/a> in May 2019 to direct another \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d film, issued a Twitter thread in which he defended cancel culture, writing that it was \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gunn wrote in the thread Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Stop calling everything \u201ccancel culture\u201d because you\u2019re too dim to have a nuanced opinion. People can be offended by something, or think something sucks, and that\u2019s not \u201ccancel culture\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s free speech. To all of those writing me about the times people get unfairly attacked \u2014 yes, that sucks! But that doesn\u2019t mean every time someone is offended by something it\u2019s \u201ccancel culture.\u201d Calling EVERYTHING that is a knee-jerk response that destroys your point.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think there are many people here, on the left or the right, who think Harvey Weinstein shouldn\u2019t have been \u201ccancelled\u201d for what he did. Likewise, these are all nuanced conversations. I think most Latin people love Speedy Gonzalez, which is a pretty good argument that he shouldn\u2019t be \u201ccanceled.\u201d But Pepe le Pew, to me at least, is offensive because of the way he treats that cat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gunn seemingly defended Dr. Seuss Enterprises for canceling six of the author\u2019s books:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>And a book publisher deciding not to publish some books because some of the images in them are hurtful to minorities, is not cancel culture. That\u2019s THEIR free speech at work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Likewise, I sometimes see celebrities getting attacked on here for something minor or nonexistent &amp; I think it\u2019s unfair. Other times I see celebrities getting attacked for s*** that\u2019s nearly unforgivable, or at least makes me not want to watch their movies. It\u2019s nuanced.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most people know that. Most people have different thoughts &amp; feelings about different situations. But Twitter is a place where the extremes on every conceivable side rise to the top, because those ideas are splashier.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cAnd for all of you out there (I see you) saying, \u2018What about people who try to cancel you?! Do they have the right to do that?!\u2019 OF COURSE THEY DO. And I will fight for their right to do so. I may not agree with their opinions but I believe deeply in their right to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop calling everything &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; because you&#8217;re too dim to have a nuanced opinion. People can be offended by something, or think something sucks, and that&#8217;s not &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; \u2013 it&#8217;s free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Gunn (@JamesGunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1368351337138638848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t think there are many people here, on the left or the right, who think Harvey Weinstein shouldn&#8217;t have been &#8220;cancelled&#8221; for what he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Gunn (@JamesGunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1368354711384977411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And a book publisher deciding not to publish some books because some of the images in them are hurtful to minorities, is not cancel culture. That&#8217;s THEIR free speech at work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Gunn (@JamesGunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1368364068474478593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most people know that. Most people have different thoughts &amp; feelings about different situations. But Twitter is a place where the extremes on every conceivable side rise to the top, because those ideas are splashier.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Gunn (@JamesGunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1368365752038739970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And for all of you out there (I see you) saying, &#8220;What about people who try to cancel you?! Do they have the right to do that?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OF COURSE THEY DO. And I will fight for their right to do so. I may not agree with their opinions but I believe deeply in their right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Gunn (@JamesGunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1368366262552731648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The thread prompted some strong responses online. Breitbart\u2019s John Nolte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/09\/nolte-james-gunn-defends-hollywood-blacklist\/\">commented<\/a>, \u201cCowardly fascists like Gunn can\u2019t have it both ways. Today, as good people watch in horror while mega-corporations blacklist people and art and ideas, Gunn doesn\u2019t have the moral courage to say this is wrong. And in defending today\u2019s McCarthyism, he is retroactively defending the McCarthyism that poisoned Hollywood throughout the 50s. It is simply a fact that what happened in the 1950s is happening today. There\u2019s no difference. Today\u2019s Woke Nazis are even using the same language: safety, morality, patriotism, greater good. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName a time when the censors and witch hunters and book burners and blacklisters ever came out on the right side of history, or when their enablers like James Gunn were remembered as anything other than cowards,\u201d Nolte continued. \u201cThere is no such time, and eventually this moral panic will pass and history will remember those who stood up to the mob, those who joined the mob, and moral cowards like James Gunn who tried to gaslight us into believing the mob is a good and noble thing.\u201d<em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-poll-majority-of-americans-less-likely-to-support-disney-over-woke-politics-firing-of-gina-carano\">EXCLUSIVE POLL: Majority Of Americans Less Likely To Support Disney Over Woke Politics, Firing Of Gina&nbsp;Carano<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Hollywood director James Gunn, who was dismissed by Disney after old social media posts of his joking about rape and child molestation surfaced in 2018 then was rehired &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310367,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-983908322.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Director Canceled, Then Uncanceled By Disney Defends Cancel Culture: \u2018It\u2019s Free Speech\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-983908322.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Director Canceled, Then Uncanceled By Disney Defends Cancel Culture: \u2018It\u2019s Free Speech\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}