I mean they don't hate each other and the antagonism is part of a social game they have agreed to play and they don't actually bear each other any ill will
sit down and have a think about how healthy it is for a society to have a bunch of people recreationally pretending to hate one another, and then do some more thinking about all the times where some shithead acts on that supposedly fake hatred.
do not in fact hate each other it's a game they play
fans don't play
or if you mean the ritualistic hatred of the other is "for fun lol" I don't think it makes that aspect of american sports fandom any less contemptable
I mean they don't hate each other and the antagonism is part of a social game they have agreed to play and they don't actually bear each other any ill will
sit down and have a think about how healthy it is for a society to have a bunch of people recreationally pretending to hate one another, and then do some more thinking about all the times where some shithead acts on that supposedly fake hatred.