Chris Pratt under fire for jokes about voting: 'This is super insensitive'

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Chris Pratt is feeling some heat online after his recent joke about voting backfired.While promoting his new Pixar movie Onward, the 41-year-old actor wrote a lengthy caption on Instagram talking about the importance of voting and encouraging fans to vote for his movie for this year's People's Choice Awards.Given the timing, with less than a month until the presidential election, Pratt was accused of being 'insensitive' and 'tone deaf' as his message sounded political at first before he went on to call the awards show nomination the 'most consequential vote in the history of mankind'.

Chris Pratt has come under fire for promoting his new film with an “insensitive” joke about the importance of voting.The Guardians of the Galaxy star made the joke in an Instagram caption asking his fans to vote for his Pixar movie Onward at this year’s People’s Choice Awards.But fans believed the caption also took aim at celebrities who have urged their social media followers to vote in the forthcoming US presidential election.“With all that’s going on in the world it is more important than ever that you vote,” Pratt wrote. “Just ask any celebrity.