Autistic people aren’t retarded, constantly linking the two together kind of bothers me. I know the intentions are well-meaning, but I can’t get over that.
I don’t think he’s trying to link the two. I just think he’s trying to go against the linking of those two by other people.
Indeed, but most times it’s used here, they aren’t linking the two.
So if I use the n-word, not intending to link it to slavery, it’s fine?
I hate that comparison. Not all derogatory words are equally derogatory.
I wasn’t trying to rate the the badness of bad words (mostly a worthless endeavor); I was just trying to state that good intentions don’t change the way things are taken.
That is true. One can not know how things might be taken and so one should endeavor to not say things that can be construed offensively.
At the same time, a person on the receiving end ought to endeavor to be mature, and not automatically assume that something that is said was intended offensively.