…and maybe it’s wrong, but I really want a dog named “Fag” now.
Here, Fag! Down, Fag! That’s a good Fag! Who’s a good Fag? You are! Yes you are!
That’s nothing. In The Dam Busters the squadron’s dog mascot is named “Nigger”. His scenes pretty much get cut from reruns of the film nowadays.
Fashions change. Sometimes for the better.
Well, the actual dog in the actual squadron was actually named Nigger. What do you want them to do?
The poor thing died after being struck by a truck right before they went out on that dam busting mission, you know. They loved it.
I don’t want them to do anything. When they made the film it was only a few years after the events, and attitudes were pretty similar. It’s just a record of the times 9as it is in the case in the OP), and I was pointing it out.
There must have been some awareness of the name, nonetheless - the Agatha Christie book entitled “Ten Little Niggers”, first published in 1939, became “And Then There Were None” in the US a year later, and that was the title used for the 1945 movie. “Niggers” was changed to "Indians in both cases. Now I understand it has been changed again to “Soldiers”. But in the UK the original title remained on the book until the 1980s