Do you see the problem Shannon Watts sees?
The diversity in this photo is stunning. No wonder you’re the team that fumbled the @NRA’s response to the shooting of #PhilandoCastile.
And “the boss” is Wayne LaPierre, who was paid $5,000,000 last year to undermine the safety of American children and communities. https://t.co/TyOydhXyke
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 18, 2018
If you said “well, there are too many white people in that picture” you are right.
This is why we are past having any sort of honest debate on this subject.
When the attack they have is “there are too many/few people of X race, ergo nothing you says matters” there is no possible way to debate that.
Unless the cause of that is strongly enforces discrimination (which for the NRA it’s not), it is a pointless no sequitur and racist to its core.
When your argument is “the average skin tone of your organization is not acceptable to me” you automatically lose.
I look in that picture and see two men and six women, including “the boss”. If you insist on checking skin tone, one looks distinctly Asian and another could be Hispanic. Ages appear to run the full gamut from mid-20s to (possibly) mid-60s.
Besides, “pot, meet kettle”: Since when has the primary driving constituency behind “gun control” ever been anything but white women with a median age of 55 and a standard deviation of approximately 5 years? Shannon Watts herself is an anomaly among the group, being relatively young and attractive — which (speaking honestly) was likely a factor in hiring her: to try to appeal to a younger crowd.
In any other business, that’d be age- and gender-discrimination … and illegal.
Looks to me like the eight people in the NRA photo show significantly more “diversity” than any gathering of “thousands” (read: dozens) of Bloomberg’s Demanding Mommies/Nannies I’ve ever seen.