Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-23893664-20130505172035/@comment-4388682-20130506204211

Coffee Shop Corporate Raider wrote: Obeseman wrote: Furbearingbrick wrote: Argumentum ad antiquitatem This could be said about the argument for blacklisting the word. "Cunt is offensive because we've always said it was." I'm assuming you are American, in which this fallacy would apply to you. If the word "nigger" was specific only to one culture, would we remove it from the blacklist? The word "nigger" is a ethnic insult. The word "cunt" is not. It is a general insult. It's like a harsher form of "idiot". The argument that the word "cunt" is offensive to women because we (the United State of America) say it is is argumentum ad populum.