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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

The Twitter outrage is meaningless compared to the real-world outrage that would follow if Disney brought back a known pedophile to work on films to work on films with a large child following.

Good thing there's no actual known pedophiles involved in this story, then.

Besides James Gunn.

GreenKnight127 posted...

Um...you are exaggerating the issue here. Wording it that way makes it sound as if you believe James Gunn is a CONFIRMED AND CONVICTED pedophile. He isn't.

lolwut? It's a sexual orientation. People aren't arrested for merely having the orientation -- which he certainly does -- but instead for acting on it, whether it's messing with child porn or assaulting children. And James Gunn is certainly a confirmed pedophile, which you could confirm for yourself if you read some of those tweets.

GreenKnight127 posted...

Joking about something doesn't immediately mean that person is condoning it.

I know a frightening amount of dead baby jokes. In fact, in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, they use dead baby jokes to defeat Blaine the Mono. (seriously, it's hilarious).

That doesn't mean Stephen King or I support the murder of babies. It just means we can acknowledge dark humor for dark humor's sake.

We just live in professionally offended outrage culture. Everyone is a politically correct Nazi. And they aren't behaving that way because they are genuinely morally upstanding. They act that way because they are virtue-signalling. And it's pathetic.

There's a pretty massive difference between dark humor and joking about your sexual predilections. However, if you are actively seeking out dead baby jokes, I'm not sure parents would be comfortable with you looking after their kids.
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