Movie News. A new film from Hollywood, Tropic Thunder, starring the excellent Ben Stiller is in trouble with the Politically Correct Police. The film satirises Hollywood, American patriotism and religiosity, over-realistic special effects, and the off-limits to humourists status of black and disabled people. But as well as gross out visual jokes it features quite a lot of more subtle humour.
Sounds to me as if it could be like a less offensive version of Little Britain or The League of Gentlemen.
The reason Tropic Thunder has upset America’s self – appointed Politically Correct Censors is its use of the word retard which, they complain, is insulting and demeaning to people with learning difficulties.
Well as control freaks they would say that wouldn’t they?
But why the fuss? You would think that in America to call someone a retard is a compliment. After all they elected one as President twice.
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Exellent news! Ben Stiller is my man.
I'd think the word retard would have devaluated in the US by now, considering, as you say, even their presidents aren't free from that mass genetic mutation.But then, I guess, Rretardry" is the norm and from now on we shall refer to it as "normalcy"
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