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First it was Hindu people wanted to boycott The Love Guru, and then a group of Christians wanted to boycott Religulous and Hamlet 2, and then advocates for people with developmental disability wanted to boycott Tropic Thunder… and now, via Huffingtonpost, Blind people are pissed off about the upcoming movie BLINDNESS, which opens this weekend.

The premise of the film, in short, is about how society goes into chaos, panic, and becomes uncivilized after being stricken with an epidemic causing people to go blind. Everybody but Julianne Moore.

“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie,” said Maurer, president of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind. “Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.”
“We face a 70 percent unemployment rate and other social problems because people don’t think we can do anything, and this movie is not going to help _ at all,” said Christopher Danielsen, a spokesman for the organization.

To show that they’re serious, Blind people and their allies will hand out fliers and carry signs. Among the slogans: “I’m not an actor. But I play a blind person in real life.”

Do you think they have the right reason to be angry?
Would you boycott this movie too?
Which side are you on?