Posted on 07/26/2018 1:14:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson erased approximately 20,000 of his tweets days after Disney fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn over offensive online remarks.
Johnson explained on Twitter that he wasnt deleting his tweets under any official directive, but was preemptively destroying ammunition in the event right-wing trolls try digging them up to ruin his career.
No official directive at all, and I dont think Ive ever tweeted anything that bad, Johnson tweeted. But its nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera, if trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a why not? move.
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No official directive at all, and I dont think Ive ever tweeted anything that bad. But its nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera, if trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a why not? move.
In wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Hollywoods zero tolerance mentality has started applying to offensive statements as well. Gunns controversial firing came shortly after Amy Powell was ousted as head of Paramount TV for allegedly making racially charged remarks about African-American women. Weeks earlier, ABC canceled its revival of Roseanne when series star Roseanne Barr tweeted racist comments about former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Gunn has since apologized for his tweets and said he understands the business decisions involved with his firing.
My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative, Gunn said. I have regretted them for many years since not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they dont reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.
Johnson said hes been using apps such as TweetDelete to mass erase Tweets, rather than go through each one individually.
Apparently forbidden perversions only matter to “right wing trolls”.
He did a bunch of pedo jokes.
The internet NEVER forgets!
https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1021241859392385029
Hopefully law enforcement has detailed copies of ALL of his deleted tweets and a through investigation is under way ultimately leading to his arrest and prosecution.
Hiding what one thinks in order to avoid losing one's job seems closer to what the victims of Stalinism went through, albeit they could lose far more than their job.
Unless you have reason to think this guy is a mass murderer, it seems to me pretty absurd to compare him to Stalin. I think it most likely that at worst he is an idiot who thinks Stalin wasn't that bad or some nonsense.
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Am I missing something? Those tweets are from Riann Wilson. Maybe I didn’t read far enough.
Stalinists aren’t stalin. They are stuck in the mud loyalist to fearless leader never admit a flaw shred the past at every turn. Orwell wrote extensively about these people. It soured him on Socialism when he was fighting Fascism in Spain.
Right. I got them mixed up! sorry about that, chief!
There are some Westerners who think of any criticism of Islam as "racism". These people I consider ignorant and foolish, but I would hardly call them Muslims.
Who brings about an Orwrellian nightmare then?
Who changes history at every sunrise?
Who shifts allegiances with party leadership when the former “friends” of dear leader become outcasts or simply “disappear”?
Do all racists.supremacists have to belong to the Klan or can some follow Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson?
Are Kruschevites different than Stalinists?
Are we off in the weeds debating the different stripes of Soviet Communists?
That’s ok. That person who did those tweets needs to be exposed, anyway.
No. I would say that Jackson and Sharpton and their fellow travelers are indeed racist, but not Klansman. Just as I would say there are communists who are not Stalinist.
I was not trying to argue that you should adopt my definition of "Stalinist" just trying to clarify that we had a misunderstanding because we seemed to have different working definitions.
The Left created this business of destroying peoples’ lives with Social Media....funny how they aren’t such big fans when the sights are on them....
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