The NYT’s headline writers need an intervention. Someone pointed a gun at six women of Asian descent and pulled the trigger: he literally targeted them. When the writers say these women “may have been targeted,” their metaphor makes the murders somehow hypothetical — as if they become real only when the killer’s motives have been established. The headline writers live on the same delusional plane as the killer. I’ll say it again: when the headlines are attributed to named authors, this bullsh*t will stop.
