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Delirious_Beard posted...

i mean it kinda does. the point of the "full r word" scene is to lampoon the fact that not only did hollywood actors take roles portraying those with a disability in order to win awards or for the sake of their own "artistry", but also pointing out the ableism within hollywood by not giving as much credit to actors who don't depict a charming and more presentable version of the disabled.

but it also doesn't always feel like the movie's really sticking up for those people i guess

It definitely does, but it doesn't do it in the same way or as strongly as they do with the blackface issue. There isn't anyone actually onscreen presenting the point of view of people who are harmed, the way Alpa Chino's character serves as a foil to Kirk Lazarus being in blackface. There's also a sort of unspoken implication that the stories of the intellectually disabled aren't actually worth tellingthat actors only take these roles and Hollywood only produces these properties for cynical, self-serving reasons. And that implication isn't ever really challenged within the script the way the blackface stuff is.