Seriously though..

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Originally Posted by Shiny Face

the reason gay people are called faggots is because they we're burned like bundles of sticks. so when you say the word faggot you are referencing a very violent and offensive history to gay people. yet we don't believe they should own that word.

on the other hand, jason made a thread about the word 'nigga'.. not even 'nigger' and it was pretty much left up to the black people to decide who can use it. not even the word packed with hateful history itself, an evolution of that hateful word within pop culture is still pretty much owned by black people.

it's because nobody is scared of gay people and everyone is scared of black people... gays need a militant movement they can call their own. pink panthers, goin around stabbing and shooting people

Other obsolete senses of faggot were "man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purposes" (1817). The oft-heard statement that male homosexuals were called faggots in reference to their being burned at the stake is an etymological urban legend. Burning was sometimes a punishment meted out to homosexuals in Christian Europe (on the suggestion of the Biblical fate of Sodom and Gomorrah), but in England, where parliament had made homosexuality a capital offense in 1533, hanging was the method prescribed. Any use of faggot in connection with public executions had long become an English historical obscurity by the time the word began to be used for "male homosexual" in 20th century American slang, whereas the contemptuous slang word for "woman" (and the other possible sources or influences listed here) was in active use. It was used in this sense in early 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others.

Source- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=faggot

[Mindless]

Originally Posted by Shiny Face

the reason gay people are called faggots is because they we're burned like bundles of sticks. so when you say the word faggot you are referencing a very violent and offensive history to gay people. yet we don't believe they should own that word.

on the other hand, jason made a thread about the word 'nigga'.. not even 'nigger' and it was pretty much left up to the black people to decide who can use it. not even the word packed with hateful history itself, an evolution of that hateful word within pop culture is still pretty much owned by black people.

it's because nobody is scared of gay people and everyone is scared of black people... gays need a militant movement they can call their own. pink panthers, goin around stabbing and shooting people

Other obsolete senses of faggot were "man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purposes" (1817). The oft-heard statement that male homosexuals were called faggots in reference to their being burned at the stake is an etymological urban legend. Burning was sometimes a punishment meted out to homosexuals in Christian Europe (on the suggestion of the Biblical fate of Sodom and Gomorrah), but in England, where parliament had made homosexuality a capital offense in 1533, hanging was the method prescribed. Any use of faggot in connection with public executions had long become an English historical obscurity by the time the word began to be used for "male homosexual" in 20th century American slang, whereas the contemptuous slang word for "woman" (and the other possible sources or influences listed here) was in active use. It was used in this sense in early 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others.

Source- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=faggot