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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, it’s rather judgemental of you to assume that the intellectually disabled are incapable of enough comprehension that they can understand when something has offended them.

I'm not assuming that at all. You're assuming the ones who are capable enough haven't stood up and said to stop using that word.

They have.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

https://www.spreadtheword.global/resource-archive/r-word-faq

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I have not made such an assumption.

The statements in context are referring to a potential future time when they say that it's not offensive. I made no statements about what has, or has not been said currently by those groups. I only acknowledged that currently the word is considered offensive.

I recognized in my original reply that the wording of the picture in the OP is problematic. Though it carries a decent enough message, the wording would be considered offensive by today's standards.