The last time I heard “Fredo” was in reference to DJTJ (who is not of Italian descent; I heard he’s 50% incompetent a-hole and 50% rancid Orangesicle on his father’s side) and NOBODY seemed to have an issue with that.

That is my read on the subject too. Cuomo’s over the top reaction kinda proves the insult. Which you’re also right its an insult not a racial slur. 

Despite attempts in the media to normalize it with TV shows and such using the word in the title, the word “Gypsy” is comparable to people of the Romani Traveler community. Hell, my wife is having an argument with someone who used the “G-word” in an online post as I type this. She’s of the opinion, “when the Nazis…

He also claims the Sandy Hook and Parkland mass school shootings were hoaxes. I wanna beat him with a ten foot pole.

I did like Gillibrand’s answer in the last debate that the first act she would do as president is to “Clorox” the oval office.  Because, eww!

My favorite thing to do is ask white Christians is what race/color was Jesus. This usually flusters them. Because, if we pretend he was an actual person, he sure as shit wasn’t white as snow.

Probably the lost letters of Paul to the Corinthians (that guy was always bothering the Corinthians)

How does getting into a physical confrontation make your kids safer, though? I’m trying to imagine an insult that would make me physically retaliate. Some rando called me a ‘fucking dyke’ the other day and it didn’t occur to me to hit him. If the dude had threatened or hassled the kids, then I could see getting in his…

• White Evangelicals gonna white Evangelical:

My partner is Sicilian, and comes from a very misogynistic, very ‘old-school’ Italian family, complete with mafia connections (his grandfather was a fascist and a member of the Sicilian mafia). They’re so Sicilian that if you call them Italian, they correct you.

I won’t even use dish soap on my car. Here’s my advice for the college-bound teens: no one wants to hook up with a lemon-scented lizard-person.

Curt Schilling, a great pitcher and patriot, is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Terrific!

On the flippity-flip, the response of the woman (who met Kennedy) to Pete was pure gold.

This is off-topic, but there is NOTHING in there about Swedes or Norwegians. What are we, chopped liver?

This just keeps getting more entertaining. Cuomo has compared himself to Fredo in a 2010 radio interview with Curtis Sliwa.

They sure have. The divide between North and South is a major problem for Italy. First time I became aware of the tension was when my brother dated a northern Italian girl and her father explained to us the best thing that could happen to Italy would be an earthquake that drowned everything south of Rome.

I would say “squaw” (which I don’t want to even type, but it’s not common enough to say “the s-word”). All of the misogyny of describing women as their genitals, + derisive racial connotations, + derisive sex-worker connotations, + genocide.  But it’s the only one I’d put up there.

I didn’t know that some people see “Fredo” as a slur. Granted, I don’t use the word since it’s just not something that comes up outside of “The Godfather” trilogy. The last time I heard “Fredo” was in reference to DJTJ (who is not of Italian descent; I heard he’s 50% incompetent a-hole and 50% rancid Orangesicle on…

The only one in the same ballpark in the USA is squaw. It’s both racist and misogynistic.

Today I learned that wikipedia has a page of ethnic slurs grouped by ethnicity and that both northern and southern Italians have slurs for each other.