niggas, need to chill. qwerty is right. This has brought so much attention to the word.

fag is fine, Faggot, though. They to went through bull shit, with stuff like family values and what not, but hey, them people took the words straight from those biggoted assholes mouths and started using it to identify themselves with. THEY OWN the word, same with niggas, niggarettes, and what not. Those black dudes literally pulled the carpet straight from under those dudes mouths. A word is just a word and subject to interpretation through time, especially Slang.