[dwaltrip]

What point was she trying to make by highlighting any distinction?

[InTheArena]

Intention of the writer is not the point. The fact that she is saying something that would be accepted as "policy" in the overton window previously but is now grounds for a coordinated shunning is a good example of how the window shifts over time.

[kerneloftruth]

I think she was countering the assertion that there is no distinction with the fact that the distinction is real, and is important.