Origins of the derogatory word “faggot”
During the Spanish Inquisition, when hundreds of women were being burned at the stake for their supposed consorting with the Devil, sadistic townspeople would “kill two birds with one stone”, as they thought of it, and forcibly throw anyone suspected of being a homosexual on to the pyre as well. ‘Faggot’ was a term meaning a small bundle of wood, usually used for starting a fireplace fire (England still uses it in that sense, and also as slang for cigarettes). It was used as a way of saying, “You’re nothing, you’re just twigs on an already burning fire to us.”
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Origins of the derogatory word “faggot”
During the Spanish Inquisition, when hundreds of women were being burned at the stake for their supposed consorting with the Devil, sadistic townspeople would “kill two birds with one stone”, as they thought of it, and forcibly throw anyone suspected of being a homosexual on to the pyre as well. ‘Faggot’ was a term meaning a small bundle of wood, usually used for starting a fireplace fire (England still uses it in that sense, and also as slang for cigarettes). It was used as a way of saying, “You’re nothing, you’re just twigs on an already burning fire to us.”
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NO NO NO FUCKING NO STOP POSTING URBAN MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS faggot (2) “male homosexual,” 1914, Amer.Eng. slang...
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Or alternatively, here’s a real advert for the food product ‘Mr Brain’s Pork Faggots’...
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How can people be such colossal cunts?? Although cigarettes are ‘fags’ not faggots here and faggot is also a kind of...
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Well, if they’re menthol then they are indeed faggot cigarettes.
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I’ve never heard anyone call a cigarette a faggot a cigarette is a fag I know it’s undeniably derived from the same...
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