I have very mixed thoughts about this. I'm 53, virtually the entirety of my teen years fell in the 80s. I'm ashamed to admit, I regularly indulged in (strictly casual) racism, sexism and homophobia back then. So it would be hypocritical of me to condemn this. At the same time, saying 'it was just the times' is the lamest cop-out ever.
It was very prevalent in the footy clubs I played for.
Happily, I've evolved well beyond those times, and stand very strongly against such things. The problem, these days, is when people DON'T evolve beyond. I think this is partly what people mean when they say they want a return to the 'good old days', days when you could use words like 'n****r', 'b***g', 'p**f', 'f*g', 'b***h' etc with far less in the way of consequences. This is part of the basis of the brain-dead MAGA/PHON ideology.
As societies, we are moving past this, just very, very slowly....
It was very prevalent in the footy clubs I played for.
Happily, I've evolved well beyond those times, and stand very strongly against such things. The problem, these days, is when people DON'T evolve beyond. I think this is partly what people mean when they say they want a return to the 'good old days', days when you could use words like 'n****r', 'b***g', 'p**f', 'f*g', 'b***h' etc with far less in the way of consequences. This is part of the basis of the brain-dead MAGA/PHON ideology.
As societies, we are moving past this, just very, very slowly....