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New tweets have been unearthed that show famous stand-up comedian and actress Sarah Silverman joking about molesting children in a similar fashion to former “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn. Silverman is the voice actress for a character from the Disney franchise “Wreck-It Ralph” - including the upcoming movie “Ralph Breaks the Internet” - and has supported a petition for Disney to re-hire Gunn.

Hey, is it considered molestation if the child makes the first move? I'm gonna need a quick answer on this. — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) July 7, 2009

In one of the tweets that led to Gunn being fired by Disney, he said that he liked “when little boys touch me in my silly place,” similarly suggesting that children have initiated sexual contact with him.

When Silverman was confronted last year by a Twitter user about her tweet, she defended it as a “dumb” joke:

that's ok doll. Comedy is subjective. I thought it was a funny/dumb tweet 8 years ago when I posted it — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) February 20, 2017

However, the above-mentioned tweet from Silverman is not the only instance of her joking about child molestation and pedophilia on Twitter. For example:

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"Pedophilia's an option if you've got the gumption"

- @danharmon #Harmontown — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) May 21, 2015

AOL puts Sandusky news on their sports page. Molestation is physical but it's not technically a sport is it? — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) December 16, 2011

This week, Silverman retweeted a now-deleted post from actress Selma Blair calling for Disney to re-hire Gunn because he is “one of the good ones”:

Marvel: RE-HIRE JAMES GUNN – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/JeVbFZkQLL via @Change. Because if people are punished despite changing, then what does that teach people about owning mistakes and evolving? This man is one of the good ones. — Selma Blair (@SelmaBlair) July 22, 2018

The petition linked to by Blair, which at the time of writing currently has over 275,000 signatures, argues in part that Gunn should not have been fired for his comments because they were old jokes that pre-dated his work for Disney [edited for language]: