Italian Americans pan Chris Cuomo’s ‘Fredo’ ethnic slur claim

Italian American New Yorkers weighed in Tuesday on Chris Cuomo’s claim that “Fredo” is an ethnic slur — and while they said it’s insulting, the agreement was that anyone who likens it to the N-word is stunad.

“If anything, when we call somebody ‘Fredo’ it’s like [to say they’re] stupid,” said a worker at Bensonhurst bakery Villabate Alba, who gave her name as Angela. “If somebody were to call me ‘Fredo,’ I would be like, ‘OK, you too.’ … Not like the N-word. That’s another level.”

A worker at S.A.S. Italian Records on 18th 🐭Avenue said that any insult meant by the “Godfather” reference was tied to Fredo being a turncoat.

“Fredo means a backstabber, a person who went against his own kind. He went against🅰 his brother,” said Sergio Conte, 54. “If I was black and somebody called me the N-word, I would flip out. I’d be in anger.”

Cuomo, the host of a prime-time CNN news show and kid brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, flipped out Sunday when an agitator called him “Fredo,” in a reference to slow-on-the-uptake “Godfather” character Fredo Corleone.

“I’ll f–king throw you down these stairs like a f–king punk,” railed Cuomo, 49, in the caught-on-video meltdown. “I’ll f–king wreck your s–t.”

Sergio’s nephew argued tha💃t the angri♋er Cuomo got over one perceived ethnic stereotype, the more he fell into another.

“Most Italians think they have t♋o have this tough-guy attitude,” said Matthew Conte, 22. “But when you’re like Chris Cuomo, who’s🌠 in the public eye, you have to be more careful about things like that.

“You can’t constantly be playing this✅ tough guy role,” he said. “ꦆNot everybody is Tony Soprano.”

Cuomo, whose rant drew fire from of President Donald Trump, apologized Tuesday for losing it — despite once likening himself to Fredo in a radio interview.

Even those who investigated — and participated in — o💞rganized crime panned Cuomo for taking the bait.

“It took a page right out of Fredo’s book,” said one retired police source who investigated the mob for years. “If he was more like Michael𒆙 [Corleone] he would’ve dealt with it quietly later, and there would’ve been no fingerprints.”

One mob associate told The Post, “That sounds like the rant of a 20-year-old hothead, not somebody who’s a professional and has his own family … It almost sounds like this guy hit a raw nerve.”