Back when they were relevant "fags" was offensive but not completely verboten to be said and you'd hear it in normie conversation at times with less "PC" people.
People really forget that all the "no no" words used to be just common parlance until as late as 2012. Nigger was the only one that was hard trouble on being used going back further, but you could say all the rest of the "slurs" just fine.
My dear deceased grandmother used to talk about people “fagging off” (slacking off, not trying, being a wuss—you get it). The toughest woman I’ve ever met. Beaten by her alcoholic dad as a kid, raised her siblings when her mom died (she never graduated middle school even), raised kids of her own, and then raised two of her grandkids after the mom became a druggie. I never heard her complain one time and, the most amazing part, she kept a sense of humor until the day she died.
They don’t make them—men or women—like that any more.
And that family of Christian Identitarians who flat out named the jew and called for total racial segregation (portrayed as villains of course, no EL needed on Jerry himself)
Back when they were relevant "fags" was offensive but not completely verboten to be said and you'd hear it in normie conversation at times with less "PC" people.
People really forget that all the "no no" words used to be just common parlance until as late as 2012. Nigger was the only one that was hard trouble on being used going back further, but you could say all the rest of the "slurs" just fine.
Times have really changed.
My dear deceased grandmother used to talk about people “fagging off” (slacking off, not trying, being a wuss—you get it). The toughest woman I’ve ever met. Beaten by her alcoholic dad as a kid, raised her siblings when her mom died (she never graduated middle school even), raised kids of her own, and then raised two of her grandkids after the mom became a druggie. I never heard her complain one time and, the most amazing part, she kept a sense of humor until the day she died.
They don’t make them—men or women—like that any more.
My mother blanches at the word nigger, my grandmother's mailman was the nigger who brought the mail.
My mother was a firm believer in black people and niggers not being congruent, well before Chris Rock made that distinction famous.
Which I still believe is the correct way to look at it, and if niggers were smarter they'd lean into that instead of needing to always be victims.
You used to see Klan guys on Jerry Springer on broadcast TV.
And that family of Christian Identitarians who flat out named the jew and called for total racial segregation (portrayed as villains of course, no EL needed on Jerry himself)
Even then, the fact it was "taboo" made it all the more exciting to say on Xbox Live.
Black gamers know full well the response to any squeaky-voiced suburban preteen using it was "You calling your own mom a nigger lover?"