"The lazy coverage of the battlefield at Target helps these extreme groups succeed in painting themselves as merely reacting to some queer aggression, made possible in part by a political press punting on the story and instead describing these attacks on queer and trans communities as a 'backlash.'"
https://newrepublic.com/article/173382/rights-war-target-lgbtq
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I think this is one of those cases where the healthiest path forward isn't to deny the reaction or backlash, but rather to say yes, it is reaction and backlash, it is destructive reaction and backlash, and to criticize it.
Otherwise it can get sidetracked into an argument over what happened instead of focusing on the antisocial aspect of what did happen.
