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I started knitting specifically with this project in mind and was so happy once I was able to make it.

Pattern is: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/owls-9

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[–] InfiniteVariables@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way to tell them they're being inappropriate... With a racial slur. Smh

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was equivalent to “Neanderthal” but just looked it up. I won’t use it again.

Hell yeah. If it makes you feel better your not the only one to have incorrectly thought that.

[–] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Detectives assemble! Something that could be confused as similar to Neanderthal, but isn't. I'm guessing mongoloid?

You guessed correctly. It is not always a slur, more a description in an anachronistic method of defining human ‘races’, but is apparently a slur used against autistic people and therefore has been deleted from my mental vocabulary.