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Th Special Olympics are outraged at the use of the term "retard" in the film Tropic Thunder, which is used to describe a character with intellectual disabilities. "Our population is hurt and offended," Special Olympics spokeswoman Kirsten Seckler said yesterday. "You wouldn't throw around the N-word like this." By contrast, Seckler said Peter and Bobby Farrelly approached Special Olympics before filming "The Ringer," a comedy in which Johnny Knoxville pretends to be mentally challenged so he can win the Special Olympics. "The Farrellys did sensitivity training with the cast and also hired people with intellectual disabilities," Seckler said. "They were absolutely great."

Sure everyone needs to be more sensitive to those who have an intellectual disability however I have a few problems with the statements above:

1. It's a movie
2. Retard is a shorten version of a medical the medical term Mental Retardation
3. Retard has entered the general lexicon as someone who is acted/spoken in a stupid manner but does not have any diagnosed metal disabilities
4. On the other hand, Nigger is derogatory term used to refer to dark-skinned people who's origin is the accusative form of the Latin word niger simply meaning black.
5. While the Special Olympics are a wonderful organization, they are no American Association on Mental Retardation
6. I suggest Kirsten Seckler watch Pulp Fiction [or other Quentin Tarantino film's] or even listen to any hip hop artist in the past 10 years
7. It's a movie

Hopefully in hindsight the Special Olympics will see how [insert word of choice here] it is to attack satirical material and instead focus their energy at providing events for the intellectual disabled here in the US.

PS: Thank god I named my stupid blog the Bottom Of The Barrel instead of Mr. Wino's Retarded Daily Ramblings. I don't need that kind of publicity.

Labels: Movies

posted by TheWino @ 8:48 AM