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The groups had objected particularly to the repeated use of the word retard in the film and promotional materials.
Robert McRuer writes in his book Crip Theory, there is "no way of saying 'disabled' without hearing 'cripple' (or freak, or retard) in its echo".
Berns and Bennett are referring to two uses of the word "retard" in The Wolf of Wall Street, as well as a third scene where Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort is describing his drug experience as reaching the "cerebral palsy phase".
He infamously called one of the supporters "a massive retard" in a text message and was consequently and justifiably punished by the FA as a result, being banned from all football activities for six weeks and fined £40,000.
I never cease to be amazed at the hypocrisy of famous and not so famous people who see themselves as "right on" and yet comfortably use the word retard in normal speech.
Theroux, who also wrote the script for Tropic Thunder, compared the situation to the use of the word "retard" in the Ben Stiller comedy, which he claims was also taken out of context.
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They will also challenge their peers to volunteer and help raise funds for Special Olympics and pledge to stop using the R word-retard-in any context.
However, necrosis was unaffected by caspase-3 inhibition, which agrees with results reported in adult rat ventricular myocytes [ 12], although it has been observed that in cancer cells caspase inhibitors also retard necrosis in an in vitro model of chemical hypoxia [ 7].
"The practices of this group of firms, which has come to file 60% of all patent lawsuits in the US, act to significantly retard innovation in the United States and result in economic 'dead weight loss' in the form of reduced innovation, income and jobs for the American economy". People in the technology world, in particular, have long known that the system is a mess.
"If we could keep SIRT1 as active as possible as we get older," Dr. Guarente said in the statement, "then we'd be able to retard aging in the central clock in the brain, and health benefits would radiate from that".
Low concentrations of viscoelastic surfactant and co-solute in water can selectively retard flow in larger openings of parallel aperture systems.
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