Thread by @MBLinton

So, the uber-fundamentalists and hyper-Republicans in a splinter network of the SBC are...

*checks notes

...playing the race and gender card?

#SBC21

This is also the same group that orchestrated ways to give the Executive Committee more power, but they're complaining that the messengers have little to no power and that the Convention is run by "elites."

For the record, the SBC is more diverse than it has ever been, and the messengers soundly defeated any attempt to consolidate power at the top.

These accusations are just more attempts to divide, and are easily recognizable for what they are to anyone who was there.

This is the first time I've ever been a part of something where the spin doctors come out with blatant lies and obvious falsehoods.

It's not a pretty look, but it isn't at all unexpected.

#SBC21

Further, the idea that messengers were suppressed was regularly disproven.

The best example is a man who gave money to this splinter group with whom he frequently disagrees, knowing they were only helping those that would vote their way. His reason? More people involved.

If he knows the charge of discrimination and suppression to be false, then I think the rest of us can rest easy.

And finally, in a room as big as that one was, with 15,000+ people in it, there was absolutely no way for the people on the platform to know who wanted to say what at what microphone. There were only a few people with cameras and lapel mics, and it wasn't anyone on the platform.