The important thing is to just refuse these things. Like with Willie Horton, it moved the debate on criminal justice reform to be replaced by a specific case w

The important thing is to just refuse these things. Like with Willie Horton, it moved the debate on criminal justice reform to be replaced by a specific case where it didn't work. It's a Lee Atwater technique, he did the Welfare Queen and Willie Horton political projects. It's marketing positioning applied to politics. Here, it's an attempt to move the discussion on human rights for transgendered people to instead be about a New Zealand weightlifter. Just refuse the discussion. The bait and switch reframing is the technique. It doesn't matter what's said, it matters that the discussion focuses on it instead of broad human rights.