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Just to remind those who come back from a day of rest, relaxation and turkey: never use the word-n, never, but especially if you are white and you use it to mourn anti-vaccine activists. As Variety Terry Rossio, screenwriter, best known for his work on Aladdin, Shrek, and Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl, took on Twitter on Friday to compare the term "anti-vax" with, of all things, the n-word.
The 100 Writer Julie Benson had already tweeted about a UNICEF program allowing people to choose how their donation to the organization would be used (for example, to provide polio vaccines), which triggered a conversation that finally caught Rossio's anger. "My heart goes to all the parents of children infected by the vaccine, who must not only endure the sadness of their loss, but also the vitriol of uninformed and insensitive people (like those here)," did he declare. "Anti-Vax is equivalent to calling someone a n ***** and has only a little sense." (It's obvious that his tweet did not obscure the word with asterisks.)
In 2016, it was announced that Rossio, who is currently working on the script for the future Jonny Quest feature of Warner Bros., is planning to adapt Merciless Indifference: Autism and Vaccines – The Truth Behind a Tragedy, the 2010 book Vaxxed director Andrew Wakefield, co-author of a now discredited 1998 study, cited by those who believe that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism. Anyway, as always (unfortunately) always, Dictionary.com says it best.
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