Somehow it’s okay for autism but the “R word” is highly offensive.
Yeah? Only one of those words is a slur. It’s the one you literally can’t write down because it gets removed for being a slur.
Retard isn’t itself a slur just like autism isn’t. The context in which they’re used makes them a slur, and in OPs context, autistic is used as a slur.
You’re still fighting the r-word war? Most people moved on around 2008 with the attack helicopter jokes.
War?
I don’t use the word retard in either it’s literal definition or as a slur, because there are better words in both cases. My response was that retard is not defined bad, and one can type out the entire word. It’s not like The N word that has one meaning, and it’s a slur where censoring the word word itself is often prudent. I’m not suggesting people should just throw the word retard around , just that it’s typeable and different than other censored words.