[ SECRET POST #4240 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4240 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I'm not that invested in Gunn himself. At the end of the day, what he said was pretty tasteless. Whether or not he deserved to be fired for it is a little arguable - as offensiveness goes, I think it was on the more minor end of the scale - but, sure, getting fired for saying stupid and tasteless things is a thing that happens.

But the arguments that people make in defense of the firing are really bad. Both the incredibly bad-faith arguments from the right, and the arguments in defense of Disney, who from my point of view completely screwed up the process and are as much to blame for this as anyone. They're really bad arguments.

[(Anonymous)]

How did Disney screw up the process?

[(Anonymous)]

By hiring a guy with a taste for shocking, bad-taste humor and publicly visible controversial tweets, and then making a knee-jerk, panicked decision to fire him at the very first sign of negative publicity?

If they really cared that much about the brand and image, they could have not hired the guy in the first place. If they knew about the tweets, they could have had a plan for dealing with them, or tried to nip the issue in the bud beforehand. It's not like they haven't fired directors before. And even if they were totally blindsided, they could have taken some time to, like, go through a process, and figure out some easier, less controversial way to deal with the problem, and make a better statement.

Instead, they got totally spooked and ended up pissing off everyone while appearing completely spineless.

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