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Netroots Nation bills itself as "the largest annual conference for progressives." This year's conference was plagued with nearly empty events, racial incitement and wild radicalism far outside of the American mainstream, including items for sale with threats of violence.
This year's conference just wrapped in New Orleans. Keynote addresses were delivered at Netroots Nation by Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Cynthia Nixon, and self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. These speakers, and the conference's legion of panelists, pushed an unrelenting new era of racially-focused activism and organizing.
The problem was, much of the time there was nobody there to hear it.
The conference was plagued by nearly empty events. "This is What Democracy Should Look Like" was a panel featuring Atima Omara, A'shanti Gholar, and Carol McDonald. With seating for more than 200 at the event, barely 20 Netroots attendees came to hear.
Perhaps they were playing slot cars or skee ball. Netroots organizers provided the progressive attendees with a variety of amusements, some harkening back to childhood toys like electric slot cars and Ms. Pac Man. Organizers neglected to cover up the offending gender identifying "Ms." in the video game.
Participants were entertained in the concourse by a Mexican Mariachi. Naturally, the band didn't bring their culturally offensive sombreros. It was a musical safe space at Netroots 2018.
Bathrooms at the convention lost all gender branding. Both males and females used the convention hall bathrooms without regard to gender. ...
In the vendor section at Netroots, books like Abolish Restaurants were available for sale alongside the more comprehensive Abolish Work. There was no sign of the bestsellers Abolish Famine or Abolish Chaos. Netroots attendees don't necessarily explore their favorite subjects in a comprehensive way.
Other targets at Netroots included Barbie. Girls are Not Chicks, the coloring book, was available for sale to make young girls angry and bitter as early as possible. Shirley took her Barbie down to a toy swap and traded it in for something less destructive is one coloring page showing a girl in a wheelchair holding a hammer. Toy swaps are part of the recycling ethic, where parents, rather than giving away old toys to friends, throwing them in the trash, or heaven forbid passing them down to a succession of younger siblings or cousins, meet and swap toys. ...
And what progressive gathering would be complete without a nostalgic reflection on the Left's heritage. For $20 you could buy a t-shirt with a Molotov cocktail. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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