These words are used for emphasis, to shock, and to express strong attitudes, but their point isn't to target a person.

But that description is bound up with an inherently hateful attitude – so much so, that the target of the word is unable to separate that attitude from the fact about his identity.

Damn. Elizabeth Warren might have an even bigger target

that Biden was the target of the night,

Is that many of these companies target women in their advertising.

target women in their advertising.

TARGET THEY'VE INVESTED HEAVILY

IN YOU COMMERCE TARGET FOR

In the beginning, that was sort of their target audience, people who, you know, wanted bargains, and wanted to buy food for low prices.

that was sort of their target audience,

While neither Hamas nor Israel is likely to intentionally target civilian aircraft,

is likely to intentionally target civilian aircraft,

what is called an “inflation target.”

which did help bring inflation closer to that 2% target –

The tobacco industry has to target vulnerable brains and get them hooked on the pleasurable effects of nicotine or it would go away.

goals: vague, amorphous, pie-in-the-sky, irrelevant, delayed. Make the target