The judgemental and arrogant attitude on display by a number of commenters in this thread is disturbing.
The whole strawman argument of “OMG you think someone seeing a word will ruin their life, you are dumb” is getting old. Literally no one in this thread from the OP onward is suggesting anything remotely like that. What they ARE asking is if it would be possible to allow individual people to hide certain words just for themselves so they are able to use WaniKani in various public settings. It should not matter to any of the critics why they want to do this because it does not affect them one bit. No one is suggesting you can’t keep using WaniKani as is to study whatever vocabulary you want, or that we should scrub all possibly offensive words from the Japanese language. Its about giving users the flexibility to manage their OWN experience.
And to those of you scoffing at the idea of behaving within a set of culture norms in public I have news for you, you won’t get very far in the world with an attitude of “screw everyone i’ll do what I want” PARTICULARLY in Japan. You would think people studying the Japanese language would have at least a basic grasp on the idea of propriety and how you behave around others, its a rather significant aspect of Japanese culture.