I live on Italian, er, Staten Island.
I speak Italian, though throw a Sicilian from some regions at me and I won’t understand a word.
My pop was from Italy. Came over as a kid.
I have NEVER, not ONCE, heard “Fredo” used as an Italian slur.
Not ever.
I’ve heard people called “fredo” as a joke about their intellect.
But NEVER as an Italian slur.
Too stupid to comment on this again so that will be my last time
But yet, you’d think Chris Cuomo would have just ignored that heckler. But by confronting that heckler in such a profane tone, he lived down to the name of two famous pejoratives of Italian-Americans, both of which I will not say here on FR!
You know....most of us who weren't part of the popular crowd in HS, learned the hard way that the BEST way to guarantee that everyone will start calling you (fill in the blank), was to tell everyone you HATED being called (fill in the blank).
Now either Fredo is as dumb as a box of rocks, was one of the popular kids, or both...
...or he never saw "Stripes"
I used to live on the other end of the Guinea Gangplank™.
I heard a lot of slurs working in a factory and even in the Post Office, but I, too, never heard “Fredo” used as an ethnic slur.
That Cuomo is too dumb (like everybody says) to understand that Fredo is referring to how dumb he is rather than how Italian he is, is the best irony.
There is a video of a guest on Fredo’s show calling Trump that and he doesnt even flinch at it being said.
I don’t remember ever hearing “Fredo” used as a slur, either, in the neighborhood where I grew up.
It seems it’s being used as an insult recently on the internet (?).
Cuomo fell into a trap, but I agree with Hannity on this one.
However, Trump was masterful with his tweet about red flagging Cuomo. Talk about driving a point home. lol
me either! One side of my wife’s family is from Palermo, recent enough that some in their late 40’s are immigrants. I also worked in the old Italian area in NE KC and never heard of it.
You are one of the best on FR in my book. My wife is Italian and she cracks up when I tell her stories about my WASP self and my brother calling each other Fredo when we were young.