Firstly ... Late. Late as fuck. I had to do a quadruple take of the date this was posted.
Secondly, the "R word" is not in my vernacular, never has been in my vernacular, and will never be in my vernacular. Let's just say it's by choice due to personal reasons.
The word in of itself used to really bother me when I was younger. I've grown up since. While I still don't necessarily like the word, I'm not out to word police people. Most people I know who use the "R-word" simply use it as a joke; some have certainly gone out of their way to say hateful things about special needs people, but most really don't mean any malice when they say it. And hey, I'm certainly guilty of using certain "offensive" words when jokingly describing people I can't stand, so I really don't have a leg to stand on if I were to police how people joke around. lol.
The same SJWs/intersectionalists/Marxists who get so offended by the "R-word" and calling everything ableist are the same dickweeds who support late term abortions under any reason by the mom, and who support the stat of 90-something percent of people with Down Syndrome that get aborted every year. Look at what Iceland did in recent years: They literally celebrated the fact that they've basically wiped out all Down Syndrome people, and leftists applauded this.
Take a wild fucking guess which thing bothers me more.