I don't have a problem with the word "fag" when used to describe a homo. If the fags don't like it, they can stop puffing on peters.
It's like an auto worker being called a "teamster". If he doesn't like it, he can go bag groceries for a living and become a "bagger."
I don't presume to climb into cats' head, especially as he used the term "hate" to describe his "heightened level of pisstivity" when the fags he encountered dumped trash in their wake and threatened his very existence by it.
But I would suggest that a sense of outrage, being violated (in the sense of having your neighborhood sullied by a senseless act of stupidity), and being just plain mad at the thoughtless, careless, criminal act that he'd just witnessed all crossed through his mind.
That's a lot of stuff to go through your mind while you're doing your damndest to keep two wheels on the ground and avoid a helluva lot of road rash. I'd even go so far as to suggest that cats didn't hate nearly as much as he was simply angry.
That said, and more to the point, when we have to worry about an upcoming political election to the point where we can't or shouldn't use a word because it might outrage, violate, and piss off a potential voter in the same manner as cats was when he was dodging trash and trying to avoid doing a high side, we've succumbed to the PC world that I loathe and detest.
Just wtf are eyelets, anyway? I know what chicken wire is. Does chicken wire somehow bolt to eyelets? Is that what keeps the hens from escaping?