Kuro Gal-san ga Kuru! - Vol. 1 Ch. 8 - My Vacation...

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really wish people would stop using that word.

The reason the its a slur for homosexuals is because way back in the day townspeople would gather fa**ots (as in bundles of sticks) into a pile in the middle of town and then throw the town gays in the fire to burn alive. That's why it's offensive. so can we please come up with another fucking "joke"
 
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I really wish people would use it more as a general insult so it loses it's power as an insult against a specific group.

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That isn't actually true. "There is an urban legend, called an "oft-reprinted assertion" by Douglas Harper, that the modern slang meaning developed from the standard meaning of faggot as "bundle of sticks for burning" with regard to burning at the stake. This is unsubstantiated; the emergence of the slang term in 20th-century American English is unrelated to historical death penalties for homosexuality."

More likely to be derived from when it was used as an insult targeted towards older women. Some also claim it could come from the practice of fagging in British private schools.
In the end the exact origin is unknown, but it definitely didn't come from homosexuals being burnt alive.
 
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@Esper - I'm 40 and I've been browsing the internet since it was nothing but bulletin boards. That "joke" has always been homophobic and always will be, and nothing people like you say will change that.
 
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Anyone getting mad about the whole fag meme at the end is cringe. It is clearly an ironic meme with no malintent. Nothing to get mad over. Though anyone saying "ok boomer" in response to it is equally fucking cringe. Ik this is a loose argument but a lot of gay dudes call themselves and their gay friends fags. Fag is just the same as nigga. Its ight to use it in a dumb ironic meme, just don't use it in real life.

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@subliminal naive fool? really? it turned out to not be true but how is it so stupid to you that i made that mistake? gay people are still being killed today for being gay even with things being so much better now. although it turned out to not be true i still dont see how its so stupid and unbelievable to believe that a slur for gays came from how they were killed.
 
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It implies you lack historical awareness and consumed propaganda as fact, I would suggest taking it as a warning that there are likely other things you are being misled on because of your historical ignorance.
 

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