| Re: *Tropic Thunder* a movie Boycott perhaps |
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Author: fanghornfanghorn Date: Aug 11, 2008 14:26
"curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote in
news:XMSdnf-EoOZC4T3VnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d@bresnan.com:
> A coalition of disabilities groups is expected as early as today to
> call for a national boycott of the film "Tropic Thunder" because of
> what the groups consider the movie's open ridicule of the
> intellectually disabled. The film, a movie-industry spoof directed by
> Ben Stiller is set for release Wednesday by Paramount Pictures and its
> Dream Works unit. "Not only might happen, it will happen," Timothy P.
> Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, said of the expected push
> for a boycott. A particular sore point has been the film's repeated
> use of the term "RETARD" in referring to a character, Simple Jack, who
> is played by Stiller in a subplot about an actor who chases an Oscar
> by portraying a mindless dolt.
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That's Ben Stiller's role in every movie I've ever seen him play in. Any
time I've ever seen "Special Olympians" Half of them have Down's
syndrome, the other half mostly consist of people born with oxygen
starvation to the brain. They don't *like* the term retarded - which
means slowed BTW, and only became an "insult" once the mentally retarded
joined the "me too please" advocacy group club. But do they know what it
means is the question?
Sorry, but if you're *slow*, you're slow plain and simple. Live with
it.
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