Retarded
Retarded: (Adjective) Characterized by being less advanced in mental, physical, or social development.A national boycott for the film Tropic Thunder, the "comedy" starring Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and a blackfaced Robert Downey Jr., is being organized; and amazingly, it has nothing to do with the fact that one of the main characters is in blackface for the entire film.
“Not only might it happen, it will happen,” Timothy P. Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, said of the expected push for a boycott. Speaking by phone, Mr. Shriver said he planned to be in Los Angeles with representatives of his group and others to picket the movie’s premiere on Monday evening in this city’s Westwood district.
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 Mr. Stiller in a subplot about an actor who chases an Oscar by portraying a mindless dolt. (Source)
Having not seen the movie, I have a really hard time buying that it could be any more offensive than such classic tard-comedies as Riding the Bus With My Sister or Radio. (Editor's note: seriously, watch that Radio clip I linked. If you can make it to the end without laughing, you are a better person than I.) And anway, if you're going to boycott a film based on the merits, why don't you start with the fact that it's starring Ben Stiller. I'd rather watch an hour and a half of somebody actually beating up helpless retards than a movie with that guy in it.
Isn't the movie making fun of Hollywoods' condescending manner towards disabled people, and not the disabled people themselves?
If not, then lock me up... I took one look at the header image and laughed.
I'd rather watch an hour and a half of somebody actually beating up helpless retards...
Yeah, that's funny stuff. You suck ass.
Ling, I think their anger is more about the language use than the parody itself - and that they didn't give a rat's ass about this group, while others got more consideration. From another part of the article:
He spoke of what he described as the studio’s and the filmmakers’ blatant disregard for the disabled even as they stepped carefully around other potentially offensive references, notably in a story line that has Robert Downey Jr. playing a white actor who changes his skin color to play a black soldier.