NYT: Disability Community Prepares for National Boycott of "Tropic Thunder"

Excerpts from The New York Times (August 11):

Groups Weigh Boycott of 'Tropic Thunder'
By MICHAEL CIEPLY

LOS ANGELES — A coalition of disabilities groups is expected as early as Monday to call for a national boycott of the coming film “Tropic Thunder” because of what they see as the movie’s open ridicule of the intellectually disabled...

...“Not only might it happen, it will happen,” Timothy P. Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, said of the expected push for a boycott...

...Over the weekend, an ad hoc coalition of more than a dozen disabilities groups — including the Arc of the United States, the National Down Syndrome Congress, the American Association of People with Disabilities and others — laid the groundwork for public protests to begin Monday...

The groups refrained from formally asking that viewers boycott the movie, pending informational screenings that were scheduled for their members at eight locations around the country on Monday morning...

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