Salt and Pepper : Post deleted

I think you're taking the film far more literally than it was ever intended. The whole point of the remarks that you mistakenly regard as authentically racist is that by the time the film was made, in the late 60s, such sentiments were almost universally discredited, and could (so the reasoning of the time ran) be joked about with impunity.

It is actually political correctness that has put the clock back, with its excessive emphasis upon race.

As for the joke about "fags", this is an amusing quibble on the contrasted meanings of the word in a formal English public-school, and demotic American, setting, together with the perennial anxiety of heterosexual men about homosexuality. The joke is NOT against homosexuals, per se.

As with the issue of race, political correctness has stirred up again (in connection with homosexuality) all sorts of mutual distrust and resentment that had more or less evaporated by the time that this film was made (at the time of genuine, and unprecedented liberalisation of the law in regard to social and sexual matters). I'd argue - in terms of real tolerance, as distinct from imposed conformity of opinion - that far from having progressed since this film was made, we've taken several steps back.

Oh thank you moron.

A staggeringly unintelligent response (its brevity, lack of punctuation and recourse to mere abuse clearly demonstrate this) to a well-argued point.

A FAG is a cigerette.

No, that's a FOG. A Fag is a cigarette.