*Tropic Thunder* a movie Boycott perhaps

[curmudgeon]

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.


*curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"

[catchme]

Post by curmudgeon
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.
*curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"

should be easy to defeat- the term retard was never meant to be used in
the English language to define a group of people, because in fact the
term means "to hold back", (i.e. fire retardant, or syn. with arrest,
restrain, or repel).
I havent watched the movie yet, but i imagine that the term was likely
misused on several occasions (it usually is, in common use), and refers
not to a group of challenged individuals.