Diversity Chronicle: Diversity Conference Shut Down Amid Shocking Violence - "Another popular, groundbreaking, and especially meaningful workshop at the Diversity Conference gave white attendees small whips and encouraged them to scourge and flagellate their white skin"

DIVERSITY CONFERENCE SHUT DOWN AMID SHOCKING VIOLENCE

No one could have possibly predicted that an event organized with the noble intention of trying to bring people of all races, genders, sexual orientations and religions together could tragically explode in violent infighting. Unfortunately that is just what happened to the Diversity Conference last weekend, the conference, which was originally planned for four days, was forced to conclude early on its first night as police were called in by outside observers to end the fighting that tragically erupted. The episode was sadly symptomatic of a larger problem within the American progressive community, the failure to adopt a truly egalitarian worldview that really celebrates and respects all kinds of diversity, recognizing all forms of diversity, racial, sexual and religious as inherently equal in every way!

Held near Nashville Tennessee, shortly before the intolerant and racist American Renaissance conference, the Diversity Conference included progressives, anti-racists, feminists, LGBT rights activists, civil rights activists and members of religious minority groups from the Black and Salafi Muslims to Reformed and Humanistic Jews. The purpose of the conference was to prove the American Renaissance racists wrong, to highlight the many benefits of living in a diverse and multi-cultural society. The goal was to show the world that peaceful co-existence and tolerance are possible and will lead to a better, safer and more enlightened world for everyone.

This monumental conference featured workshops organized by a wide variety of diverse groups. It included speeches by renowned and well recognized anti-racists, feminists, LGBT activists and even Salafi Muslim guests from as far away as Egypt, who arrived by invitation for the first time. The keynote speech of the first day of the conference was organized by feminist author Adriana Loeb-Horowitz, a feminist and Jewish lesbian of the Reform movement in Judaism.

It is difficult to pinpoint how the fighting started but it seems to have originated in an unanticipated conflict between lesbian feminists and male Muslim activists. . . .

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