Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17970636-20160123014228/@comment-27356798-20160123073805

speaking from the perspective of someone on the "Autism spectrum" (Or more specifically, Asbergers syndrome, a mild form of Autism), I understand the stigma behind these disorders, and the offensiveness of words like "Sped" or "Retard" quite well, as I've been called both. I don't care for the words being thrown my way, but I do not appreciate the ignorance displayed when people use them. 9/10 times, they do NOT know what exactly they're saying, or how much it can hurt.

While I shrug it off now, the special needs league where I both played at and currently volunteer for has a lot of kids who would not be able to, myself included when I was younger.

Swearing is a personal bad habit of mine, but that isn't going to stop me from saying some swear words occasionally, especially if I'm annoyed at what happened in the most recent episode of RWBY. Still, such words, while not exactly intellectual, don't offend me as long as they're directed at a topic, rather than at a person. When used as a part of an insult, they do naught but display ignorance and stupidity on the side of the person using them.

(I know, I'm a hypocrite. I get angry and swear at people sometimes, although I don't think I've done it here).

As for Racial slurs...Just...No. That shit should've died in the damned 60s. While my viewpoints aren't exactly PC all the time, I have NO tolerance for that kind of crap, and I don't think we should need to be saying this.

But still, if it needed to be said, it needed to be said. Good on ya, Leaf