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James Gunn Fired Over Old Pedophile Tweets
from Not A Legal Expert · #106
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2 minRay riffs on Disney firing James Gunn for old tweets, arguing it's what happens when audiences worship corporate franchises like Star Wars and Marvel instead of growing up.
- 1:20Tim sits alone at a table like he's throwing himself a dinner party, feeling odd because his wife is with someone who delivers meat.
- 1:36James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy, fired by Disney for old tweets about pedophilia from 2002.
- 1:55Tim argues this is what happens when you sell your soul to corporations instead of blaming free speech or politics.
- 2:08People care more about Marvel movies, Star Wars, and Harry Potter than about the strings corporations pull.
- 2:27No one should care about a 50-year-old movie being resurrected or who becomes the new Jedi master.
- 2:40Tim tells the audience to grow up and stop supporting Disney, which gets leverage over people this way.
- 2:51Disney is only big because audiences made Marvel and Star Wars profitable by refusing to mature beyond franchises.