One of the things that I’ve long been perplexed about is the role that insults like this one (or worse) play in the minds of liberals when they’re evaluating examples of interpersonal violence. They place *a lot* of weight on the things people say when they’re in a high-stress violent confrontation, whereas I place almost no weight on it at all. The things people say when their adrenaline is pumping are totally uninteresting and irrelevant. You could say almost anything and it wouldn’t change my overall evaluation very much. But liberals care about it *a ton* and assume it speaks strongly to motivation.