Retarded Whiners Protest Tropic Thunder
Because Catholic women still tend to pop out babies until their uterus collapses, and that means a lot of the time the last one has Down's Syndrome or some other disability, I have been involved in activities for the mentally disabled since I was a kid. I have been a counselor at special summer camps, and for many years participated in the Special Olympics—I am also about ten credits short of a Masters of Education Degree in Special Education.
I pound my perky breasts not as as an application for sainthood, but to point out what a terrible bitch I am in calling the Tropic Thunder
protest organizers what they are—retards.The protest organizers are not just retards, but mean manipulative retards. These well-meaning, but annoying, people are hauling out disabled kids, some in wheel chairs, to protest a movie these kids have not even seen.
The primary complaint about Tropic Thunder is the word “retard” is used seventeen times. The activists want to make retard into another N word (which is uttered “only” once complains Tim Shriver—yeah we probably should have equal opportunity offensiveness) which is the fastest way to get hauled off to Bad Word Rehab, and have your life destroyed by Al Sharpton. Indeed they are calling it the R-word, and have a whole website and organization devoted to eliminating the word from our vocabulary.
What these retards don't understand (nor do any of the nanny speak enforcers) is that English is a living language, and words change their meaning—just try reading Beowulf in its beautiful, but largely unrecognizable, Middle English.
Or take the bard himself. A lot of snooty people go to such things as opera, even though they don't really like it, because it raises their social standing, or at least their pretentious self-image. These people think that Shakespeare was writing in some highly refined English, not readily understandable to the masses, who feed their banal desires on American Idol and reruns of Green Acres.
Shakespeare was a highly talented writer, who wrote in the English language of his time. All his puns and allusions were apparent to English people of all classes—they did not study him to death in English Lit classes—and that is why he was wildly popular in his own day.
Take the word "dumb"--a word which used to mean unable to talk--"deaf and dumb". It is highly offensive when used in that sense--but I have never heard it used that way, and I don't think it is anymore---it just means stupid.
Like I say, words change. Many bemoan that the Gay Nineties now means the Homosexual Nineties, and harkens back to the days of disco dance and lesbians in flannel shirts.
It is so ridiculous that the spell checker, at one of those organizations that is scared to death of the “gay agenda” automatically produced the headline "Tyson Homosexual wins the men's 100 meters final”. They were talking about Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay.
These yo yos are like the original April fools—the term applied to those who refused to recognize that New Year's Day was changed from April 1 to January 1, with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
Actually, it would be better if those who care about the rights of disabled people embraced these derogatory words—and pointed an ironic finger at them. That is what homosexuals have done with queer, dyke, butch and to a certain extent faggot—and women with bitch, bimbo and cunt—and vagina, which for some reason was (and still is in some polite circles) a word that could not be used, even if the discussion was about a piece of anatomy known as a coochie.
Now, since most Hollywood films are offensive in a multitude of ways(and the cameo by Tom Cruise in this one almost guarantees it), I will not say the flick is not demeaning and awful, until I actually see it.
But if the primary complaint is they throw around words like retard, imbecile , and idiot--then the protesters may not be retards....
but they are certainly ignorant whiners.
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