Probably.
It's a little late in life for him to be discoverng on the fly that use of a term for any distinct group of people as an expletive of defamatory abuse is offensive to that group and encourages disdain toward its members and, because the offense and harm to the group were unintended and are immediately regretted, resolving on that account not to so use terms for that group again.
That sort of modestly traumatic learning experience was not uncommon in my early years among children raised in a society of customary racism and casual anti-Semitism.
But how could it be made today by a grown man no longer young?
A man of his age who uses language that way cannot deny understanding what it does.
The liberal thought police, of course, encourage that sort of abuse of some groups while avenging like furies its visitation on others.
In that regard, the actor crossed a line.
But why cannot we be rude about other people? Is love obligatory now?
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