"Targeting"
"Targeting" anti-discourse discourse has fallen in love with a word Chris Bray You do X. I say that I disagree with X, and would prefer for you to do Y. Maybe I also tell other people that you do X, and that I disagree with X. This means that I have targeted you. Here’s a letter from medical industry groups to Attorney General Merrick Garland, offering a distinct echo of last year’s NSBA letter . Look at the second and third paragraphs: The accusation that dark actors are engaged in provocation and “targeting” is a response to people posting videos of doctors at children’s hospitals talking about gender-affirming surgery, including hysterectomies. Social media companies are aggressively removing those videos, so watch one here if you haven’t seen them. The fact-checkers, doing what they do, have staggered to the fainting couch, insisting that it’s an insane far-right conspiracy theory to claim that children’s hospitals provide gender...