I dunno man Gunn's tweets where just as bad.
No, they factually were not. The situations are not at all similar.
- Gunn's tweets were an
obvious attempt at being edgy. They were bad jokes and they failed at being funny but it's clear what the intent was.
- Hart's tweets were not "jokes." Calling someone a "fat fag" is not a joke, it's a homophobic attack.
- In his stand-up routine, Hart took his
real opinion (not wanting his son to be gay) and used it as the basis to then make jokes. Gunn is not a pedophile but Hart is homophobic.
- Gunn had clearly and obviously changed as a person. His tweets were years old and for a long while now, we have seen him use his social media platform to speak up against Trump's white supremacy and for that, he was targeted by literal Nazis.
- Gunn had brought up his offensive tweets on his own in at least two old interviews, talking about how he had learned from his edgy past and about how he has changed -- which, again, we were able to see with our own eyes.
- While Hart's tweets and stand-up were also years old, he
recently made it clear that he didn't think they were wrong.
Hart told Rolling Stone in 2015 that he wouldn't tell the joke again, "because when I said it, the times weren't as sensitive as they are now."
Not because he understands it was wrong but because "times are sensitive." And now after the tweets and stand-up were brought up again, he refused to apologize
again, only to then "apologize" when the Academy gave him an ultimatum.
Not a single aspect of Hart's "apology" was sincere as he made it very clear, multiple times in the past couple years, that he didn't think he was in the wrong.
So please, let's stop with the "what about Gunn" nonsense.
