A Disney spokesperson declined to comment further about the petition on Monday.
It began togain attention Saturday, after being shared byThe Greyfilmmaker Joe Carnahan.
At that point, it had about 5,000 signatures.
A day later it had 100,000.
Momentum seemed to only be increasing as it approached a new goal of 300,000 on Monday.
Among Gunns offensive jokes were lines like, Laughter is the best medicine.
Thats why I laugh at people with AIDS.
One of them was a reference to a hoax viral video of a predatory bird carrying away a child.
Eagle snatches kid is what I call it when I get lucky, Gunn tweeted.
As evidence, he linked to the shows dark spoof ofThe Lion Kingtune Hakuna Matata.
Gunn himself did not defend his old jokes, instead issuing a public apology.
He made his career on trolling the liberal establishment by accusing people of pedophilia or child sex trafficking.
Obviously, I would not wish any harm of my daughter or any other person.
For one, Gunn had a larger volume of vulgar tweets compared to Seders single remark.
