Seriously though, this sort of rejection of this type of thing because UGH PC is pretty batshit.  People have this aversion to political correctness' increasing role in our culture because idk, I guess they're too dumb to understand why what they're saying is bad, or maybe they just don't give a shit, or maybe it's a PERSONAL LIBERTY issue who the fuck knows, but it's totally unnecessary.  The entire point of things like this is to be more sensitive to what these words mean to other people, and how they affect them when you say it.  That's really it; so many people just do not understand or empathize with people around them and I think everyone's lives would be a lot better if people at least made an effort instead of callously dismissing these things.  So yeah the answer is that if you ignore things like this then it makes you an insensitive asshole and that's probably part of the reason people don't like you Catslacks!

Also, Stadsport's post is pretty bad because it assumes that you can just take words that have long historic meanings and connotations, and evoke a myriad of emotions from the people who hear them as a result, and just completely redefine their meaning.  Oh okay, nigger isn't a racial slur for black people, it just means you're dumb and lazy, REGARDLESS of race.  Nevermind the fact that it originated as being specifically intended for blacks, or that the word itself has centuries of vitriol and hate attached to it, the meaning of the word just suddenly changed.  I guess all the people who dislike hearing it because of what it means to them and because of the era it brings to mind should just put it all out of their mind, because Stadsport says it doesn't mean that anymore.  Thanks, Stadsport!  Thank you for enlightening us, for... cluing us in.

Hey, you know what, when I say cunt, I don't mean it as a sexist pejorative term for women, I just mean it as in women who nag too much, and not even just women, either!  You know, if a dude's nagging too much, he's a cunt too.  It's important to note that this isn't incredibly naive or insensitive at all, even though to anyone with an inkling of intelligence, it seems like it clearly is.

So yeah that's an awful argument.  Faggot isn't as bad as nigger in this respect, but it's not GOOD, either.  There're still a few decades of fairly intense prejudice attached to the word; you can't just erase all that on a whim.

I got it covered guys, I am filtering every bad word on the forums. I'll have it done soon.

Yeah I'm just going to go on record as saying I think filtering every insensitive word people might be inclined to use here is a bad idea!

Well, I think the thing is, you can't compare normal obscenities to slurs.  Obscenities may offend some people, but they're generally pretty accepted and I don't think there's a language in existence that doesn't have them so that's just kind of part of language as a whole.  Racial slurs are actually insensitive to entire groups of people and are almost guaranteed to offend.  There's a huge difference between a word that originated as a way to express strong emotion or whatever and a word that originated as a way to subjugate and hurt people.  So yeah I don't really think you can just draw parallels between words like shit and fuck and words like faggot and nigger.

To be fair, pussy and cunt are borderline, especially the latter, but things like dick, prick, asshole, et al are fairly incomparable to legitimate slurs, I would say.

No, it was a response to Pyschoskull and maybe catamites since he mentioned traditional swearing as well.