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In recent years, our public and private dialogues have grown increasingly coarse.

With this roughness, we have witnessed the troubling return of the R-word.

According to the Special Olympics, when social media users post about people with intellectual disabilities, 70% of those posts are negative, and 60% include a slur.

In recent days, we have seen leaders like Elon Musk repeatedly use the term.

As the father of a young man with Down syndrome and the leader of a business where more than half of my colleagues have differing abilities, I feel compelled to address this alarming trend.

There was a time when the word “retarded” was acceptable.

Jessica Williams and Samantha Bee convene two panels to discuss the state of race relations in America.

But even then, it dehumanized people with differing abilities — people like my son, John, who is 28 years old. Its usage gained prominence during an era when individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities were often shunned, confined to institutions, denied an education, barred from employment, and rejected by society.

They were treated as less than human. John is not less than human.

Thankfully, times have changed. Today, people w

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