{"id":3777,"date":"2018-07-29T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/29\/selma-blair-quits-twitter-in-solidarity-with-james-gunn-so-long\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T16:21:05","slug":"selma-blair-quits-twitter-in-solidarity-with-james-gunn-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/29\/selma-blair-quits-twitter-in-solidarity-with-james-gunn-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Selma Blair Quits Twitter in Solidarity With James Gunn: \u2018So Long\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After using the social-media platform to defend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\">James Gunn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/selma-blair\/\" id=\"auto-tag_selma-blair\">Selma Blair<\/a> has quit Twitter altogether in solidarity with the fired &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; director. Disney severed all ties with the filmmaker after offensive tweets from years past were dug up by alt-right activists, which hasn&#8217;t sat well with many of Gunn&#8217;s colleagues and friends. In a tweet that, along with her account, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/selmablair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no longer exists<\/a>, Blair wrote simply,\u00a0\u201cSo long. You can find me on Instagram. #Istandwithjamesgunn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/james-gunn-petition-disney-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-1201986596\/\" title=\"Petition Calling on Disney to Re-Hire James Gunn Earns Thousands of Signatures Within Hours\">Petition Calling on Disney to Re-Hire James Gunn Earns Thousands of Signatures Within Hours<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Blair previously said of the situation,\u00a0\u201cIf people are punished despite changing, then what does that teach people about owning mistakes and evolving? This man is one of the good ones.&#8221; Dave Bautista, who plays Drax the Destroyer in the &#8220;Guardians&#8221; films, has similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/james-gunn-tweets-dave-bautista-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1201986383\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Gunn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank you for your talent, your decency and your evolution as a man,&#8221; Blair also wrote. &#8220;You propped me up when I was in a scary place, and guided me towards the decent and right thing to do. You have shown strength of character more than most anyone I know. You understood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: \u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Reveal Their Own James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/rachel-mcadams-selma-blair-james-toback-sexual-harassment-stories-1201891141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Reveal Their Own James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/marvel-re-hire-james-gunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">petition<\/a> calling on Disney to re-hire Gunn was launched last week and has been signed more than 331,000 times as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After using the social-media platform to defend James Gunn, Selma Blair has quit Twitter altogether in solidarity with the fired &#8220;Guardians&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-YV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}