Extremely dangerous how “grooming” in the context of child sexual abuse went from being a very specific pattern of isolation and trust-building with the aim of abusing someone to “telling children anything that contradicts their parents’ ultra-conservative worldview is grooming” to “selling rainbow flags in a store is grooming” to “literally anyone I don’t like is a groomer”.
These days the word seems to most often be used by people who don’t care about what it actually means and just want an easy “this person is irredeemably evil, kill them now” button.
