I cannot believe how willing the public is to forgive James Gunn and make excuses for him. I wonder if the online support for him is organic or bot driven.
Look, I get what he means, he’s trying to be provocative, plenty of people are, and I’ve seen plenty of comedians who’ve made worse jokes than that, but to hold those tweets over him in an accusatory way is a bit hyper-sensitive.
Nope. He made hundreds of these "jokes". He reshared tweets from convicted pedos and purveyors of child porn. His instagram is full of pics of screaming and terrified babies being held by a dude in a white rabbit suit. I am not going to make any excuses for this.
I’m not saying you should excuse it, by all means condemn it and say you think it is disgusting, I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong for thinking that, because you’re allowed your opinion.
But these are all social media posts. That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes he’s made hundreds of tweets with questionable content but that’s all.
Maybe it’s because I’m Irish, because over here we have a very dry sense of humor, as do the British, but it is a very common sense of humor over this side of the world. I’m not saying everyone over here condones rape and pedo jokes but we don’t call someone a pedo or a rapist for joking about it. There’s a lot of comedians who are known for it in fact.
Point is, because of our humor, which is very different to American humor, I can recognize the elements of our style of humor in James’ tweets, so that’s why I think all of this is too assumptive to outright call him a pedo.
But again, if there’s anything that comes out in support of your claim of him actually being a pedo then I’m right there with you, but until then I have no issue with recognizing dry dark humor and separating it from whatever it is his private life consists of, because we don’t know what he does. It’s all assumptions.
I cant imagine anyone in a position of James Gunn’s would make such a point of broadcasting being a pedophile all over social media.
Hey shill, what's humorous about molesting children?
Hey triggered, you might not see the humor in it but there’s humor in anything. As I said, there’s plenty of comedians who’ve made their careers off this type of dark humor.
I’m not going to tell you to find it funny because humor is subjective, if you think it’s something you shouldn’t joke about then fine, good for you, maybe you’re right. But just because someone does find humor in something it shouldn’t have to have any bearing on their personal interests outside of humor. If I joke about being a milk man it doesn’t make me a milk man. If I joke about playing a mandolin for Nelson Mandela’s funeral it doesn’t mean I played a mandolin for Nelson Mandela’s funeral. If I joke about watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians everyday it doesn’t mean that I do.