Movie director James Gunn has had his own personal run-in with the so-called “cancel culture,” aka being held accountable for things you have said.
As you may recall, long before Gunn became a big-time Marvel Cinematic Universe director of the the Guardians of the Galaxy films, he had posted some highly offensive homophobic, pedophiliac rape “joke” tweets. When these tweets were publicized by alt-right activist Mike Cernovich, Gunn was fired by Disney from GOTG3. As I wrote back in 2018, Gunn accepted his firing with grace and apologized for the old tweets.
Since that time, he has rebounded professionally and is now apparently back for directing Guardians 3 as well as a Suicide Squad sequel for DC. But nevertheless, Gunn took extensive criticism for his tweets and got at least temporarily fired by one of his biggest potential employers.
So it is interesting to read a stream of tweets Gunn has written about recent controversies over “cancellations” of Dr. Seuss books and classic Warner Brothers cartoon characters: