Flash Star Hartley Sawyer Fired From Show For Racist Tweets

[thechase]

CW lose another hero, as Hartley Sawyer (Ralph Dibney on The Flash) has been fired due to the uncovering of racially-charged and misogynistic tweets dating back to 2012 and 2014

“Hartley Sawyer will not be returning for Season 7 of ‘The Flash.’ In regards to Mr. Sawyer’s posts on social media, we do not tolerate derogatory remarks that target any race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation. Such remarks are antithetical to our values and polices, which strive and evolve to promote a safe, inclusive and productive environment for our workforce.”

variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-flash-hartley-sawyer-fired-racist-tweets-1234627876/

[burdette25159]

I wonder what is going to happen to Ralph Dibney now, is he going to be recast? Is he going to be replaced by another character ala what is happening on Batwoman?

[Mainia]

I love Ralph, he became my favourite character pretty quickly back when he joined the show and he's one of the few bright spots now that the show has gone very downhill in recent seasons in my opinion, so I'll miss the character. I had no idea he was such an a-hole irl as I'm barely on Twitter and only really follow wrestling stuff when I do check it. Those comments are beyond awful.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Well maybe he’ll be hired back later like James Gunn.

Unless we decided that joking about racism is worse than joking about raping children. I don’t know anymore

[ayumidah]

I was never a huge fan of the character, and what I remember of his time on Young and Restless, he wasn't anything special there either, but yeah those tweets are very bad. I kinda hope Flash keeps Cisco around more this season and give him better storylines, I miss him.

[arrogantmodel]

It still blows my mind for some reason, that people can be painfully stupid.

Like, we constantly hear about celebrities tweeting out racist and/or misogynistic stuff, wearing blackface Halloween costumes, and there was a time when people kept leaving their kids in hot cars.

For god's sake, we always hear about people getting busted for this shit, yet people continue to do them. It's insane.

[xCompackx]

I believe in second chances, and Hartley's apology seems to be sincere, so maybe down the line, he can work his way back.

Right now, though? Guy had to go. This isn't a case of somebody with an obvious agenda trying to shame a company because a director made some (admittingly unwise) posts on Twitter, this is an actor's relatively recent racially charged posts being brought to light in a time of incredible anger and sadness. Good on CW/WB for making the call.

Also, holy f***, can we stop using Twitter? Like, forever?

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

or just stop taking EVERY THING SO SERIOUSLY!

[Deleted]

I am really surprised networks don't do thorough background checks on shit like this because if I understand it when Twitter deletes an account they still have access to all the tweets even if the account itself is gone.

Anyways the ralph character has become fairly integral especially now that they brought in Sue....I would simply recast and pull a Charlie from legends where he permanently morphs into a whole other person and he simply cannot change back.

absoloutley no reason to get rid of the character.

[Deleted]

"Oh, some lady named Jean ran around in his brain and killed him or something. And Sue met someone named Dr. Light who....ugh, let's just move on, oh look it's a new cooler Rainbow Raider for the rest of the season."

[dreidemy]

Not gonna defend his tweets or something like that but this "Cancel Culture" thing is f***** stupid

The guy probably lost his career because someone didn't have anything better to do than searching for tweets

[Joe Neglia]

I'm seriously starting to rethink a few things on how to handle these types of threads, and it's really starting to lean into the "let the people defending it go play somewhere else" territory.

If you're going to show your ass on here, start by not. And then continue to not.