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.
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 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.