Using the word “retard” is as offensive as a racial slur like “nigger”, Special Olympics New Zealand says.

The organisation had asked the Broadcasting Standards Authority to ensure using “the R word” was unacceptable after TV One’s Breakfast host Paul Henry last week called Scottish singer Susan Boyle “retarded”.

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