The "R" word?!?!? Thats just stupid.?

Question

Has any one else heard of the people protesting Tropic Thunder for using the "R" word. Do any of you guys think this is stupid or is it just me. As if The Ringer didnt use "The R word" like a thousand times. But of course that was okay becase they kinda stuck up for "them" at the end of the movie. All of the people that have seen Tropic Thunder that i know say it was a great movie.

Answer 1

I, personally, protest the word as well, because it is demeaning to the mentally challenged. It makes them seem "stupid", when they are anything but. They are challenged, but not stupid. I know from experience, I worked with them for years.

Now, I know that the word probably didn't seem that way when it was first being used, but now, people took it out of context and started calling people that word as another word for stupid. Just like the "n" word, it was taken out of context and is now offensive.

Answer 2

I don't think its completely stupid because they make valid points but the movie only uses the word a couple of time! Yet they say nothing when Johnny Knoxville plays a mentally disabled person in the 2005 movie the ringer the whole plot of that movie is just a guy pretending to be developmentally disabled just to win a contest! All that movie does is make fun of people who are mentally disabled so why didn't they protest that!