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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: TianaHighrider

Fascism is at the core of the LW Democrats


21 posted on 06/23/2019 8:08:13 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My God, TDS is a real thing isn’t it. Trump Derangement Syndrome, it makes you believe something without one shred, one iota of evidence. Maybe they are referring to that time Trump called KKK recruiter Robert Byrd his mentor. Oh wait, that was Hillary.


22 posted on 06/23/2019 8:08:29 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ping for tomorrow


23 posted on 06/23/2019 8:09:29 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: rfp1234

That’s perfect.


24 posted on 06/23/2019 8:12:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: thoughtomator

The worst aspect of it is that they are banning people on the basis of a lie. They have defined-down “white supremacism” to mean anything that is traditionally Christian, traditionally patriotic, and which adheres to the common-sense notion that our bi-partisan immigration laws must be enforced, and that failure to protect the borders will destroy the country through uncontrollable and unsustainable immigration.


25 posted on 06/23/2019 8:13:54 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Menehune56

When my “Distiilng Shine for Amateurs” bans conservatives I’ll get PO’d. I can’t knit and tend the still at the same time.


26 posted on 06/23/2019 8:14:44 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Guess that passes for tolerance from them?


27 posted on 06/23/2019 8:14:59 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I’m thinking there might be business opportunities here.

Every time a previously non-political company gets pozzed and pulls something like this, start a competitor. They’ve created a market for you, handing you half of their customers.


28 posted on 06/23/2019 8:17:09 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
inclusive of all

Well, that right there is funny and doesn't mean what they think it means.

29 posted on 06/23/2019 8:17:17 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: rfp1234

I wish we had some kind of LIKE feature here.


30 posted on 06/23/2019 8:19:53 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where do they get this Shlt? One person says it, and the lemmings jump.


31 posted on 06/23/2019 8:20:58 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: Vendome
"These kind of ladies are fairly conservative

I'm guessing some member knitted a MAGA monogrammed pink pussy hat and the web administrator over reacted.
32 posted on 06/23/2019 8:23:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Vendome

I say if they’re so anti Trump, they must be pro-abortionists, and so I’m anti-them.


33 posted on 06/23/2019 8:24:40 PM PDT by CAGOPgramma (In God we still trust!!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I wonder if this taking of a stand coincides with the realization that President Trump is winning in 2020? If not why now.


34 posted on 06/23/2019 8:25:12 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excuse me, but why ON A KNITTING SITE would you be talking politics? If I’m not mistaking, 99% of Knitters (ok my grandmother’s knitting group) are white...should we have Knitters Stamp...?


35 posted on 06/23/2019 8:27:18 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: proxy_user

But advocating for and providing multiple patterns for p***y hats isn’t really political /s


36 posted on 06/23/2019 8:35:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: rktman

“We are inclusive...now GET OUT!”


37 posted on 06/23/2019 8:37:08 PM PDT by digger48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are simply wrong. Trump is not a white supremacist. Does that matter at all to these people?


38 posted on 06/23/2019 8:43:08 PM PDT by TChad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A lot of this is based on the “fine people” hoax, the lie that Trump was praising white supremacists as 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


39 posted on 06/23/2019 8:50:52 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These idiots accusing him of white supremacy should be labelled as white supremacists because Trump has done Way Way more for the minority communities than they certainly have- and these morons are trying to drive minorities away from Donald Trump who is trying to help them- what have these morons done for the minorities? Not nearly as much as the trump administration has! These morons don’t want minorities prospering under trump- THEY are the minority haters- Not Donald Trump!


40 posted on 06/23/2019 8:51:39 PM PDT by Bob434
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