The word starting with sp and ending with astic is worse
I must confess that I let the word ending with tard slip out from time to time .. it’s not used in the context to offend people that are intellectually slower (I don’t even know how to describe it anymore without worrying about offending, which is stuffed up)
The truth is the world has gone completely soft and overly sensitive .. PC correctness , yay
The word sp_astic if just as bad
My 2 brothers-in-law are special needs, have mental impairments, are intellectualy challenged which are supposedly the PC way of describing their situation these days
I've seen 1st hand what they cop, the most recent a few weeks back when I bought one of them to the footy with me.
While I get people for the most part don't use either word to offend, facts are it does offend.
My brothers-in-law cannot help the way they are so using those words to describe others indirectly puts them down because they are different, it suggests they lesser people because the are not "normal" and nothing can be further from the truth
I get that I'm in the minority but it is something I feel incredibly strongly about. Politic correctness? Perhaps but I'd rather think it's about respect