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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Crazy thing is that it's not even offensive to SN people; it's offensive to THEIR snowflake parents.
  
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What makes you think that's true?

I'm a special ed teacher.  Most of my students are high school students with intellectual disabilities.  I can tell you this word hurts them.  I see them retreat from the cafeteria when they overhear the word 2 tables away, because suddenly it doesn't feel like a safe and welcoming space.  I listen to their voice crack when they tell me how they went to the mall on the weekend, and asked a question with a somewhat obvious answer and got the response "what are you retarded or something?"  The other day, a student was describing a painful experience, where someone made them feel belittled and underestimated.  They described it to me as "it made me feel the same way I feel when someone says 'retarded'".

So, yes, it's a highly offensive word to people with intellectual disabilities.  Someone who says "I'd never say the n-word, but using the r-word is OK" is saying "I care less about the feelings of people with ID than I do about people who are black."  Because it feels exactly the same way to the people it targets.[/quote]

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