{"id":598040,"date":"2021-07-20T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598040"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:21:26","slug":"marvel-director-james-gunn-addresses-his-temporary-cancellation-defends-cancel-culture-as-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marvel-director-james-gunn-addresses-his-temporary-cancellation-defends-cancel-culture-as-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Director James Gunn Addresses his Temporary Cancellation, Defends Cancel Culture as Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmarvel-director-james-gunn-addresses-his-temporary-cancellation-defends-cancel-culture-as-accountability%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=598040&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\/07\/GettyImages-983981832-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Marvel director James Gunn is speaking out about what it was like to be temporarily canceled for old tweets.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Disney fired the writer\/director, best known for his work on the \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d films and DC\u2019s upcoming \u201cSuicide Squad,\u201d after Twitter users unearthed past remarks where he made jokes about pedophilia and rape.<\/p>\n<p>Among the posts between 2008 and 2011 that landed Gunn in hot water: \u201cI like when little boys touch me in my silly place\u201d and \u201cThe best thing about being raped is when you\u2019re done being raped and it\u2019s like \u2018whew this feels great, not being raped!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Guardians cast protested Gunn\u2019s firing, however, Disney rehired him less than a year later.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging July 14 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/14\/movies\/james-gunn-the-suicide-squad.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, Gunn called that period \u201cunbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a day, it seemed like everything was gone. Everything was gone,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cI was going to have to sell my house. I was never going to be able to work again. That\u2019s what it felt like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gunn described receiving the news from Marvel head Kevin Feige at the time, saying, \u201cI called Kevin the morning it was going on, and I said, \u2018Is this a big deal?\u2019\u201d He went on to share details of their conversation: \u201cAnd he goes, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 That was a moment. I was like, \u2018You don\u2019t know?\u2019 I was surprised. Later he called me \u2014 he himself was in shock \u2014 and told me what the powers that be had decided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the devastation Gunn says he experienced at the time, the director still defended cancel culture, likening it to accountability. He brought up serial predator, Harvey Weinstein, though the studio head faced far more than social media censure or career loss for his illegal behavior. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape, taking his conduct well beyond the bounds of speech or cancel culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel culture also is people like Harvey Weinstein, who should be canceled,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cPeople who have gotten canceled and then remain canceled \u2013 most of those people deserved that. The paparazzi are not just the people on the streets \u2013 they\u2019re the people combing Twitter for any past sins. All of that sucks. It\u2019s painful. But some of it is accountability. And that part of it is good. It\u2019s just about finding that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gunn has defended cancel culture before. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/director-canceled-then-uncanceled-by-disney-defends-cancel-culture-its-free-speech\">reported<\/a>, in March, Gunn called it \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop calling everything \u2018cancel culture\u2019 because you\u2019re too dim to have a nuanced opinion,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople can be offended by something, or think something sucks, and that\u2019s not \u2018cancel culture\u2019 \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 \u2018cancel culture.\u2019 Calling EVERYTHING that is a knee-jerk response that destroys your point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gunn previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/james-gunn-rehired-by-disney-after-scandal-likes-tweet-bashing-gina-carano-after-disney-fires-her\">liked<\/a> tweets bashing former Mandalorian star Gina Carano and celebrating her firing for political speech.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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