A question of semantics

As is so much in propaganda.

NRA calls companies' Florida shooting boycott 'political and civic cowardice'

The National Rifle Association has criticized more than a dozen companies for choosing to sever partnerships following the shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead. 

The lobby group called such moves a “shameful display of political and civic cowardice”.

On Saturday, in similarly worded statements, the airlines Delta and United said they would end discount programs for NRA members.

The carriers joined more than a dozen businesses, including the car hire brands Hertz, Budget and Avis, the hotel chains Best Western and Wyndham Hotels and the software firms Symantec and Norton, that have ended various loyalty and discount schemes for NRA members.

In response, the NRA has taken the unusual step of attacking the businesses. 

In a statement, it said the companies had unfairly sought to “punish” its the group’s 5 million members over the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland.

“The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement,” the NRA said.

“Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.”

A propos of, specifically, the complaint these companies are punishing NRA members by discontinuing their privileges, I would ask Wayne and the gang at the NRA what they think of the uses of the expressions "white privilege" and "white skin privilege" in the discourse of nonwhites, and especially blacks, about the situation of white people in by far mostly white countries, and especially in the US.