CW fires Elongated Man Actor for tweets.

Jun 9, 2020 20:28:27 GMT ThatGuy said:

Jun 9, 2020 14:49:19 GMT dazz said:

No but then that's not remotely the case here, similar thing to Gunn Sawyer said this stuff years ago and was hired after having made these public comments, and at a time when he wasn't anywhere near as well known so he had minimal reach so likely didn't take any of it serious, also was said during a different time and atmosphere than today.

He said this shit before he was hired if it matters that much to people who hire these people then fucking check their social media before you hire them, don't do this hollow bullshit of acting offended years later only AFTER someone else brings public attention to it, lots of regular jobs google you and check your social media these days before hiring you, what a fucking TV network or show doesn't? Pathetic fuckers.

I think it's more that it makes him look like a hypocrite after he was in those ads about tolerance.  The difference between Gunn and Sawyer is that Gunn apologized for those tweets long before they came out and his "firing".  So it wasn't his firing that made him apologize for them.

I don't know about Gunn didn't his tweets resurface twice, so the first time could have been when he apologised for them, but I am not sure about that.

Also Sawyer was apologising the moment these came to light, not only after getting canned, so if Gunn only apologised for his tweets after they initially came to light it's the same thing, except Sawyer got canned on the first instance not the second.

Also no way it's that, it's about saving face, as I said normal jobs check this shit no way a network or a show seen by millions doesn't bother checking the social media of the actors they plan on hiring, but they will pretend this is a shock because otherwise they get hit with the you knowingly hired a racist backlash, they hired him, they had to know this shit was in his past they just didn't give a fuck until someone else did and now they are playing shocked.

Truth is this coming to light could be used to send the right message of not accepting intolerance by making him and others confess to their past mistakes of their youth and how/why they now know it to be wrong and all that, but that only sends the right message, it doesn't cover the networks arse, hence they wont do it and will instead just shit can the guy and play innocent, but this stuff doesn't actually dissuade people from thinking in any way like this just makes them think shit better not get caught saying it, where as if you have someone who did say stupid shit in the past saying how and why it was wrong that can send the right message that those types of thoughts and comments are wrong.