A cursory google of “target guillotine” reveals a shirt that was never even sold at Target, but was a past creation of a designer that later designed some Target products. Devious “promotion of violence” on Target’s part.
This strikes me as a meagre attempt to post-hoc justify the outrage after the viral story that triggered the initial moral panic (targeting “tuck-friendly” swimsuits at children) turned out to be completely fabricated.
It’s outrage laundering - you have a story that could outrage a neutral observer but it’s predicated on bullshit. So in order to make keep the outrage alive its proponents need to fill the air with more bullshit that takes more time to debunk than it does to spew.
