I don't condone the language at all...but I think for those of us born after 1980 we can't comprehend a world where people spoke like Archie Bunker and it was just normal vernacular as a way to describe different people...slurs were used to simply describe someone from Euro immigrants to Asians to Spanish people Pollack Wop were used to describe white immigrants so the n word was probably similar use of language in the 60s and 70s the word was probably even used in normal conversation with their black friends and co workers
It's kind of like how in the 90s you could say homo and faq and not really cause much of an uproar but today it is career suicide that's the only way I can relate to what these older guys feel...u also have grown and I do not use the f or h word