It’s already been said several times, but it bears repeating: this is a completely normal-looking group of people in an extremely normal-looking photo. They’re wearing masks, which isn’t necessarily the norm, but anyone who isn’t an insane person shouldn’t find that weird.
More to the point, though, someone looking at this photo and calling these people “mutants” is very obviously responding to the context of the photo and not the photo itself. This photo could have been taken at a trade show, academic conference, gaming convention, competition, etc. The only thing to respond to here is that it was posted by the DSA. That’s it. Whoever called this a group of mutants is projecting their biases onto the photo based on their bias against the DSA, or leftists in general, and doesn’t need to be taken seriously.
It’s already been said several times, but it bears repeating: this is a completely normal-looking group of people in an extremely normal-looking photo. They’re wearing masks, which isn’t necessarily the norm, but anyone who isn’t an insane person shouldn’t find that weird.
More to the point, though, someone looking at this photo and calling these people “mutants” is very obviously responding to the context of the photo and not the photo itself. This photo could have been taken at a trade show, academic conference, gaming convention, competition, etc. The only thing to respond to here is that it was posted by the DSA. That’s it. Whoever called this a group of mutants is projecting their biases onto the photo based on their bias against the DSA, or leftists in general, and doesn’t need to be taken seriously.