I don't what the experience of other people were at a young age but I experienced a lot of horrific stuff as a kid and it really left me with a bizarre perspective on life.  I can easily see why other people who had any sort of similar upbringing could be a toxic adult.

 But if my specific case I ended up stunting my life working in thankless public service when I clearly had the work ethic and ability to make a much better living in other fields.  I have destroyed my own potential but I haven't really been a toxic person to other people.

But I still have this understanding of how a shitty childhood can teach someone that being an asshole to others is not only OK but literally the only way to survive.

 My own brother for example was a piece of human garbage once became a teen and got nothing but rewarded for it.  He is older than me and still getting money from my parents to live on the East coast.  Meanwhile I was homeless in my early twenties and my parents didn't care.

 So I just don't know.  I don't want to encourage toxic people but I fully understand how a person can easily become someone like that and be rewarded for it.  These people weren't coddled.  They were abused until they figured out how to be the abuser.

 At the same time I am not one of these toxic people.  I don't want to defend their actions.  I don't know if there is really anything I can do that I am not already doing.

James Gunn Fired

I wonder if there are many people in here who will support the Gunn firing.

I knew of Gunn before he became famous.  The guy was with all those Troma people who always tried to outdo each other with shocking, Anti-PC faux bon mots.  I believe in one of the introductions to a Lloyd Kaufman's book James Gunn went into great detail about how he self pleasured on Kaufman's desk.  So consider that social environment.  It doesn't carry over very well into the DIsney brand in 2018.

Literally ALL the Troma people were constantly saying the most vile shit possible to try to outdo themselves.

If you honestly think that 90s edgelords like Gunn are actual abusers then I fucking don't know what to tell you.

I am getting old because all these idiots just don't understand that actual provocateurs would ACTUALLY say awful things.

Why would he say this?  It's not even a joke?

Yeah back then (Jesus I am getting old) that was the point.

All the Troma people said those things BECAUSE they were vile and disturbing.

Not because they were child abusers/murderers.

It's really strange seeing the younger generation from both political extremes totally smug and justified in their beliefs that someone should get fired because of words with no context that are almost a decade old.

The dream of the Anti-PC 90s is well and truly dead.