It’s in a meme. Reading it doesn’t harm you.
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samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months agoBecause it’s a hateful slur.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Censoring it doesn’t harm you, either. It’s a word that’s only purpose is to spread hate. Nothing of value is lost.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It does, because I call my bf a removed teasingly. And a lot of my gay friends do the same.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re welcome to say whatever you want to your family and friends. This is a public forum.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or a packet of cigarettes
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I think you meant “fags”. Not quite the same word.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Derived from the same word, but an abbreviation of it.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 months ago
According to Wiktionary, “fag” as in “cigarette” is probably derived from “fag end”, (from “fagge” meaning “flap”), rather than “faggot”.
“fag” as a slur is derived from “faggot”, of course.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Faggets?
kleenbhole@lemy.lol 8 months ago
So?
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You obviously haven’t had it used against you as a call to violence have you?
kleenbhole@lemy.lol 7 months ago
No, I got called other words. Not banning them either.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would rather people don’t use it at all if you don’t mind and I gladly censor myself when it comes to other slurs. I can’t convey the mental anguish and self hatred that I’ve suffered all because of an immutable characteristic of my sexuality. You can treat it lightly because you haven’t gone through that suffering. It’s one thing for someone to make fun of you for kicks. It’s quite another for entire groups of people to hate you because of what you are.