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by PeterisP 1528 days ago
I'd suggest that the set of words which are appropriate or inappropriate are strongly dependent on the writer, context and the type of writing, and attempting to impose a single specific set of words as a privileged set of appropriateness/inappropriateness is indeed simply imposing their morality on everyone else.

In many cases they are making a false assertion that a particular word is inappropriate, simply because it's inappropriate for them in their context/culture/morality while it's entirely appropriate for the writer's context/culture/morality; and those false assertions essentially attempt to change the writers' own notion of what's appropriate or not towards what Google considers appropriate - and I don't agree that Google should be allowed to apply such social influence.