Ok this other angle, of course it's basically like a companion piece, but I figure why torture people all in one post, the first one was too damn long enough
Anyway, I almost always hate it when people try to throw the "it's a slippery slope!!" into ANY argument, I feel like it's a cliche, and just always makes me do a giant eye roll. BUT, in this case, the way these alt-right trolls went after James Gunn for this past material... mind you, all the stuff he's "in trouble for", Disney and Marvel had full awareness of it when looking at him to write and direct the first Guardians,, he owned them, he sincerely apologized for them, and Disney was perfectly appeased. Gunn went onto make arguably the best movies of the whole Marvel era, and all was good. He was not at all "that person" anymore, he was universally loved by his cast and crew, much of whom went onto work on Guardians 2.
Then, the Trump cultists started to be not happy Gunn was speaking out against Dear Leader, making him look like a lying, corrupt asshole by simply repeating back things Trump's openly said. So then this Mike Cernovich, a true psychopath decided to start digging, and this whole shirstorm started, as described in the previous post.
But here's the rub: when do they decide they want to bring down Robert Downey Jr, as well? After all, this dude's actually an EX-CONVICT! With major drug charges! And in the one case, wondering into this one kid's bedroom while just high off his rocker not knowing where the fuck he was, he could've really hurt that kid easily.
So if Disney really has this super duper zero tolerance policy of good behavior from its talent, it's only a matter of time before RDJ's having to defend himself against the self-appointed morality policy. I mean, am I totally off base here?