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Director Canceled, Then Uncanceled By Disney Defends Cancel Culture: ‘It’s Free Speech’

Hank Berrien
Director Canceled, Then Uncanceled By Disney Defends Cancel Culture: ‘It’s Free Speech’
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On Saturday, Hollywood director James Gunn, who was dismissed by Disney after old social media posts of his joking about rape and child molestation surfaced in 2018 then was rehired in May 2019 to direct another “Guardians of the Galaxy” film, issued a Twitter thread in which he defended cancel culture, writing that it was “free speech.”

Gunn wrote in the thread Saturday:

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