"Ad-hominem" translates as "to the person" and means an argument that attacks the person they're arguing against rather than actually addressing the topic being

"Ad-hominem" translates as "to the person" and means an argument that attacks the person they're arguing against rather than actually addressing the topic being discussed. Here, the topic is a person. It's not an ad-hominem to describe facts about a person when your argument is explicitly about that person.