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Popular Knitting Website Banned Posts Supporting Trump, Accusing Him Of "Open White Supremacy"
Buzz Feed News ^ | June 23, 2019 | Jane Lytvynenko

Posted on 06/23/2019 7:46:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

"We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy."

Ravelry, a community website for knitters, crocheters, and other textile fans, has banned all content supporting President Trump and his administration in what it described as a stand against white supremacy.

In a statement posted to their website, the administrators wrote that posts, projects, patterns, and profiles supporting the president are no longer allowed. The site is the most popular online forum for knitting fans and counts millions of users, as well as 80,000 followers on Instagram and 100,000 on Twitter.

"We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy," the Ravelry statement said. "Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy."

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Such stupid people shouldn’t be entrusted with needles


41 posted on 06/23/2019 8:52:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: digger48

I have gotten a patterm or two from that website. Never again.


42 posted on 06/23/2019 8:54:09 PM PDT by Vipper (We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Part of this is liberals smearing ALL conservatives as racist bigots. Liberals are taught in college and told by media and entertainment that they and they alone are welcoming, tolerance, moral. They’re told conservatives just hate all the other groups.

A recent study shows Democrats - especially college educated - believe as a fact their hateful stereotypes of conservatives.

Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/republicans-and-democrats-dont-understand-each-other/592324/

The hateful stereotypes are perpetuated by deliberate spin to “prove” said stereotypes, like the lie that Trump called white supremacists “fine people”.

Trump Didn’t Call Neo-Nazis ‘Fine People.’ Here’s Proof.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html

Another reason is laziness. It is easier to smear the other side as stupid, crazy, evil, ignorant (with the elitist belief everyone will agree with you unless they’re inferior to you). Don’t argue policies, just slap them with labels. And now liberals have absolute certainty in said labels, so they think they can literally bash the fash and be in the right.

We already see this with “hate speech”. Liberals already define their views as based on love. Everyone else can be silenced as “hate speech”. And when you say it is just based on hate, you don’t have to listen to their views and can justify denying them freedom of speech. Plus, since they’re just evil haters, you can hate them because you already “know” they hate you.

This is akin to Islam preaching that all unbelievers want to hurt you, Jews are liars not to be trusted, hate the infidel, be wary of the apostate. Fear and hate the unbelievers, knowing they want to hurt you. Then it is easier to murder the critic, the atheist, the Christian who defends their views in public. And it can be framed as protecting the whole group. That is what Islam does - blasphemy is considered a literal attack on all believers, so your words are violence and we can execute you for it.

Liberals have appropriated this justification. You even hear it with “they’re invalidating our existence, they’re killing us”. It is a great way to protect your believers from contrary worldviews and even contrary facts ... but it is deadly when it comes to fruition.

And it all comes back to their increasingly extreme bubble, great power, and religious levels of investment in a political ideology.

The terrible irony is that liberals have united with Muslims in a war against the Judeo-Christian West/American worldview to, in their minds, defeat a common enemy. The liberals then assume the Muslims will convert to liberalism and celebrate diversity. In reality, the totalitarian system that created ISIS and Boko Haram will try to do the same here. All while they smear Christian neighbors as wannabe Taliban.

We aren’t in a 2 sided fight by a three way fight ... and it really is a war of religious ideologies. The tragedy is that the Judeo-Christian / Western ideal is the most tolerant. Be Jewish, Hindu, Baptist, whatever, but do share the modest common culture and language so we can all get along.


43 posted on 06/23/2019 9:01:24 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy."

Ok,prove it because the knitting world is a segment of society that is the cornerstone of political and social intellect.

44 posted on 06/23/2019 9:03:30 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Inclusive of all”....except

Hmm, hypocritical much?


45 posted on 06/23/2019 9:27:15 PM PDT by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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To: FrdmLvr

Do you or does anyone else have a suggestion as to where to go? I can’t find a comparable site.


46 posted on 06/23/2019 9:32:47 PM PDT by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: thoughtomator

I wish I had the skills to start a competitive site. I’d be promoting it like gang busters right now.


47 posted on 06/23/2019 9:34:20 PM PDT by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: mkleesma

“Civil War II can’t come soon enough for me”

They’ll be armed with knitting needles. I think we’ll have the advantage over this faction.


48 posted on 06/23/2019 9:45:48 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hate Knitting Nazis.


49 posted on 06/23/2019 9:59:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Lisbon1940

My mother did both for decades. Even got offers to market her wares. She does not have a leftist bone in her body.


50 posted on 06/23/2019 10:12:29 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First they’ll come for the crotcheters and you’ll say but I am a needle pointer.

Then they’ll come for the knitters...


51 posted on 06/23/2019 10:45:37 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Fortunately, KNOT ALL KNITTERS ARE KNITWITS!!!


52 posted on 06/23/2019 10:49:24 PM PDT by Sioux-san (k)
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To: mkleesma

Undeniably going to happen.


53 posted on 06/23/2019 10:55:43 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pinky and the brain thought it was yodeling club that where the rulers of the world. Notice Trump was on the board of yodelers that ruled the world video was made in the late 90's.
reality it was the knighting club
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CzdJFvkd9nhr/
54 posted on 06/23/2019 10:58:34 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Oopos meant to say,
In reality it was the knitting club
55 posted on 06/23/2019 11:01:13 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look up Casey and Jessica Forbes and their team

So gay


56 posted on 06/23/2019 11:27:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...th)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes the left then went on a priest killing rampage

Like in Cuba and Mexico and killing clergy in east bloc nations

Now clergy is fairly Left often times at least here and in the COC


57 posted on 06/23/2019 11:28:44 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...th)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, knitters, upload patterns for Trump hats there. Repeat. :-)


58 posted on 06/24/2019 12:56:34 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: proxy_user

I used to visit a homesteading forum but it got ruined by politics. Mainly a handful of rabid leftists vs conservatives. Neither side would “let it go” in an argument and every subject became political due to the PC thing. The forum lost half of it’s members and of course, it was the knowledgeable half.

They also changed ownership a couple of times and changed forum software a couple of times during all this and that didn’t help.


59 posted on 06/24/2019 4:07:27 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please boycott! They are yarn befuddled and maybe they will see the truth if enough people stay away. I can attest to the fact that is is a popular site for weavers, spinners, knitters and anyone who does anything with fibers. But when they say that conservatives are welcome if they shut up and refuse to post patterns for MAGA clothing etc, that’s just disgusting.


60 posted on 06/24/2019 4:46:54 AM PDT by finnsheep
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