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The outraged mob called for another scalp. Before they get another one, let them win.
Disney dismissed James Gunn, the director of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies, after a slap of critics unearthed a series of tweets from years ago – long before that. He was a Marvel film director, when he was an indie edgelord making horror movies about the snakes that enter your orifices and take control of your mind. The jokes are rude, but these are just jokes, and have nothing to do with movies that he does now.
Critics of the good twist suggested are fair, since Disney recently put Roseanne Barr in a box after publishing a nasty, racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett. Barr, whose prevalence of ratings had caused much anxiety among the depressed scholars that a vote in favor of Trump had given him air and attention, was squeezed out for his politically outraged, supporters say
Ironically, Gunn – an anti-Trump vocal voice who had recently denounced another director for daring to say something kind about the conservative writer Ben Shapiro – expressed his support for Barr's dismissal, tweeting, "Roseanne is allowed to say whatever she wants." That does not mean that @ABCNetwork should continue to fund her series if her words are disgusting. "(Yes, about that, James …)
Gunn's shots were less like those of Roseanne and more to those of Orson Scott Card from a Superman project in 2013. The hiring of l & # 39; Mormon author of "Ender's Game" sparked a lot of anxiety in the ban community comics after Card's opposition to gay marriage. The boycotts have been threatened and the story of the successful author has been put aside.
It's a better spell than the one who hit Andy Yeatman from Netflix. The streaming service dismissed him after a woman claimed to have been assaulted by a Netflix actor and said Yeatman had cruelly rejected his complaints, suggesting that the company did not believe her.
Of course, Yeatman – who had no power over the actor in question – had done this after being approached by a stranger while he was with his family, in the process of Coach his daughter's football team.
The Huffington Post published a story about his dismissive response to this unknown person who was haranguing him while he was with his family and who was doing a work definitely unrelated to Netflix, the mob was relieved and he was been sent back.
I would like there to be an agreement for this kind of behavior to be stupid and unjust and destructive to the very fabric of our politics, so that all sides of the indignation wars will disarm unilaterally so that no one should live in fear of a casual comment that destroys years of work. But it's a wish for the world as it should be, not the world as it is.
Here's the problem: people will never stop being angry, and social media allows them to express their discontent more easily than ever before. The media will never stop fanning the flames of these setbacks because they drive clicks and allow journalists to feel like they're making a difference in our cruel and ugly world.
So let me suggest the following: The next time a big corporation is hit by boycott threats, instead of cowering in fear and spelunking immediately, to make sure the victims actually face to their threats.
Does anyone think "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3" would lose a single dollar when it comes out in 2020 because some angry people have unearthed tweets of a duration of several years written by a director that 99% of viewers could not choose from a group? "
Roseanne's numbers, who were poor on the coast and strong in the heart, would really dive because she tweeted something hateful (for which she apologized) about an Obama official?
Would be the author of a comic book story from Orson Scott Card? Really dent the bottom line of DC? Are there millennials who will give up their ubiquitous entertainment delivery device because a daddy bothered at a football match gave a spontaneous answer?
I guess no, but maybe they would! The point is: we have no id Companies are so accustomed to caving without fighting to avoid some bad headlines that we really do not know if social media boycott campaigns of popular entities – a real refusal to hand over money for goods and services. services –
This is going to take a bit of scale, and Lord knows that businesses do not really have an overabundance of vertebrae. But it's worth trying if it's only to break the cycle of stupidity. The next time a crowd – conservative, liberal, nihilist, whatever – comes for one of your employees, refuses to play until you see how serious they are.
I think we will all be pleasantly surprised.
Sonny Bunch is editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon.
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