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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Everybody is overly sensitive about the term "faggot" these days. CMV

Me and my friends jokingly use the word faggot a lot, and I've had a lesbian cousin who has said "that's gay" and "what a faggot" before while around me, and I just don't see why people seem to treat it like it's equally offensive to gays as the N word is to black people.
gpt
Because to some gay people, it *is* equally offensive. The word has historically been used to demean, threaten, and otherwise bring very real harm to gay people, and you can't erase that history just by joking.