{"id":8369,"date":"2018-01-18T06:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2018-01-18T06:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:49:38","slug":"fighting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=8369","title":{"rendered":"fighting words"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDem\u2019s fighting words!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026 said everywhere from Bug Bunny to the New York Times\u2019 crossword puzzle. Note the following iconic exchange between Bugs and Yosemite Sam:<\/p>\n

Yosemite Sam: <\/strong>\u201cNow, you dog-blasted, ornery, no-account, long-eared varmint!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bugs:<\/strong> \u201cHey, just a minute, you! Dem’s fightin’ woids!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Yosemite Sam: <\/strong>\u201cYeah, dem’s fightin’ words!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Bugs: <\/strong>\u201cI dash ya to step across dis line.\u201d<\/em>
\n [traces line along edge of diving board]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yosemite Sam: <\/strong>\u201cI’m a-stepping.\u201d<\/em>
\n [Sam steps across line and falls off board; rises up]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yosemite Sam: <\/strong>\u201cI hate you.\u201d<\/em>
\n [falls back down]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Witness the clear progression from fighting words to hate. One person offers an emotionally -charged insult. The next labels the insult as \u201cfighting words.\u201d There are then back-and-forth threats, having justified the fight. And all of a sudden persons who have more in common than they wish to realize, declare their hatred for one another.<\/p>\n

Dare I humbly suggest, the fighting quickly runs out of control.<\/p>\n

The current cultural fighting seems to be out of control in areas where previously there was none.<\/p>\n

Note even the NBA game Monday night between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers. The game featured the return of longtime Clippers\u2019 star, Chris Paul, yet this time, he was an identified member of the opposition.<\/p>\n

It was a game \u2014 a competition, if you will. Only one team could win. Things got heated. All sorts of emotions were flying. Insults accompanied the emotion.<\/p>\n

As ESPN reported, \u201cThe final minutes of the game were filled with technical fouls, ejections, swearing, bumping \u2014 and that was just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the game was over, four Rockets\u2019 players \u2014 including former Clipper, Paul \u2014 took a back hallway that Paul knew connected with the visiting locker room with that of the home team. In an incident investigated for multiple days by league officials, the Clippers were then stunned when these professionals burst into their locker room. They were stunned, too, that the men had \u201ccome calling for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said more by the entertainment sports network, \u201cFor a few fleeting moments, several Clippers dared the Rockets to come farther into the room, sources said. Security and team officials soon converged on the Rockets, pushing them out the door and back toward the visiting locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hence, \u201cOn a night that the Clippers organization played a video montage to honor Paul’s six seasons here, the fractured relationships that led to his departure in June percolated in the raucous fallout of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

And thus, with all the emotions resulting from two teams with similar goals in perceived competition with one another, someone, somewhere concluded, \u201cDem\u2019s fighting words!\u201d<\/p>\n

Once we conclude that the other has utilized \u201cfighting words,\u201d we are lured into justifying hatred. Once we justify hatred, we fail to see the more we have in common with another\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 regardless of the court.<\/p>\n

Respectfully\u2026
\nAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDem\u2019s fighting words!\u201d \u2026 said everywhere from Bug Bunny to the New York Times\u2019 crossword puzzle. Note the following iconic exchange between Bugs and Yosemite Sam: Yosemite Sam: \u201cNow, you dog-blasted, ornery, no-account, long-eared varmint!” Bugs: \u201cHey, just a minute, you! Dem’s fightin’ woids!\u201d Yosemite Sam: \u201cYeah, dem’s fightin’ words!\u201d Bugs: \u201cI dash ya to … <\/p>\n

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