My have times changed. The terrorists did win after all. They successfully changed our culture to one of perpetual fear.
Nah...I disagree with this as afterwards public islamophobia was somewhat justified and tolerated all the way until 2010 when that changed. It was way more the rise of social media usage that created this.
This extreme PC culture came more so about when the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and ease of access to forums. Thanks to the anonymity of the web and the of fame for likes, retweets, etc we in the general sense have become more me oriented. When things are more me oriented, we as a society slowly justified our worth of opinons/ beliefs by likes and the amounts of likes, retweets, etc viewers, subscribers, etc justify that we are right therefore superior, thanks to echo chambers, it grows where people get a bloated sense of worth. I.e Hahha I have this many likes and you don't so you are wrong. Alex Jones somehow being a credible source because he has this many subscribers vs Colin Powell who actually worked and has experience etc. Add in groups like the Family Research Council, One Million Moms, etc dictating policy and virtue signalling one way and other groups virtue signalling another way, people are forced to choose a side and of course like usually people post it in inappropriate places like on Facebook instead of a politic forum and then get mad at those who disagree which leads to even more virtue signalling and even more of people/things needing things to be PC.
By the way its not just a left/right thing, literally everyone is a snowflake about certain topics...whether it be Disney vs Universal, Politics, Race, Gender, Movies, Star Wars vs Star Trek, etc. Even some people who complain about PC culture, get offended when people make statements about groups they are part of crying that its not PC. (I.e some people when jokes where made about President Obama were okay and funny and people needed to be less PC yet now people makes jokes about President Trump its respect the office blah blah blah)
Back in the day, people kept things to themselves and their close friends because you didn't have the web to make statements. Technology is what lead us to this point and will continue to create things like this which creates a need for PC culture.
Now back to PC culture matters to Disney.
Companies are a brand, and the issue with Disney which no other studios whether it be Fox, Sony, Paramount, Universal, etc is it is seen as a clean brand...not left/not right, somewhat progressive but still focused of family values, Church friendly and non offensive. No other studio would fire James Gunn. Universal didn't fire Joy Reid for making bigoted statements, Fox didn't fire Sean Hannity after placing out false statements that offended many to the point Fox got sued, etc. ABC, ESPN get some leeway as they don't scream Disney.
Due to the fact that James Gunn and Roseanne were hired to create family based products, their statements and actions would have to be near cookie cutter. James Gunn was a victim of his past where people legitimately were looking up dirt on him.
Roseanne Barr contract dictated this...
According to the contract, a suspension or termination is warranted if the “Artist at any time commits any act or omission constituting a felony, a misdemeanor or other violation of criminal law, an intentional tort, reckless conduct, gross negligence or other malfeasance. Furthermore, anything that causes producers or the network to incur “Public disrepute or humiliation, contempt, scandal or ridicule” that “insults or offends the community or any substantial group thereof” qualifies as grounds for termination.
She choose to post it despite knowing she could be fire. Disney was allowed to fire her for that because she did this after her contract was signed. Thus this thing called personal responsibility. Doesn't matter her statement, she caused a public scandal and insulted and offened a community whether it be intentional or not. Doesn't matter if you or anyone was not offended or if Roseanne knew Valarie was black or not. Ignorance doesn't not excuse consequences of actions.
