modern parlance. what about him is thuggish? he had dread locks. he's loud after a game. the adrenaline is pumping. he's just made the biggest play of his life. he's screaming, everybody is screaming, all over the field. a microphone is shoved in his face. nothing about that says thug, but thug become's place holder for n word and monkey. >> he made that point today. he said in hockey games, they just go out on the ice and fight each other but no one is attacking them as a thug. he wasn't throwing a punch to anybody. >> i think we have to be careful about the proliferation of the word "thug" in kind of modern media. we throw it around as if it's something -- >> honestly, with social media, there's little that any of us can do. ignorant people are going to resort to these kind of offenses. i'm sure you get racial offenses, because i know i get