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Great peice from Melissa Mira Grant (h/t @e_urq for the share).

Be critical of media euphemisms like "backlash" to describe the recent phenomenon of terror threats and against even the mildest corporate expressions of support for queer people.

"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..."

https://newrepublic.com/article/173382/rights-war-target-lgbtq