Trump supporters are furious that a knitting website took a stand on white supremacy
Trump supporters are furious that a knitting website took a stand on white supremacy
The knitting forum that boasts over 8 million users says hate won't be tolerated on its site anymore.
URIE DVOROZNIAK at Salon
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/24/trump-supporters-are-furious-that-a-knitting-website-took-a-stand-on-white-supremacy/
"SNIP......
Neither theory has basis in Ravelry's own narrative, though, as in their announcement, the site’s adminspointed towards a similar decision by roleplaying game hub forum RPGNet in October of 2018. Ravelry said that their new policy was "inspired" by RPGNet, who announced that they would ban all support of Donald Trump on their forums. Their policies and Ravelry's new policies are almost entirely the same, but with some minor different phrasing. RPG.comexplains their reasoning as so:
This is because [Trump’s] public comments, policies, and the makeup of his administration are so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both.
Accusations of racism and white supremacy aren't new in either the roleplaying game world or the knitting world. The knitting demographic has become younger, though, as knitter Jaya Saxena writes in a Vox article titled “The knitting community is reckoning with racism,” the demographic is still largely white women of all ages (a demographic that Trump won by a slim margin in the last election).
Other knitters say that knitting has always been political. Twitter user Samuel West replies to the Tweet of Ravelry's announcement with an image of knitters marching with a quiltwork knit banner saying "East London knitters say balls to Trump."
.......SNIP"
The article also mentions how the 'pussy hats' were knitted too.
= new reply since forum marked as read
?itemid=7274296
