I've received the strangest warning from a moderator.
This is the last warning: Please stop putting the NRA into this post. Its completely out of context and serves no purpose but to frame them as guilty by association. I really don't want to have to lock this post.
It looks like they since deleted this comment, but they haven't explained or apologized for it so the situation remains unclear.
For context, it was being used as an example of a political organization with clearly defined membership. This is the most-up-to-date version of the sentence.
Unlike the Ku Klux Klan (a white-supremacist organization in the US) or the NRA, antifa doesn't have a central organization or membership.
(Though granted, I would probably also add the non-acronym version for that organization also, if not for the threat against using it in my post.)
I don't see any reason the NRA should receive special protect against being used as an example. What about organization like Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian? Are those off-limits too? What's going on here?
For context, some people mistook (and got abusive over) an earlier version of the sentence as calling the NRA a white supremacist organization, but that doesn't seem relevant to this sentence.
