Posted on 02/28/2019 11:57:16 AM PST by Trump20162020
Karen Templer’s Fringe Association Co. is kind of like Goop for knitting. There are tips and how-tos for navigating knitting’s trickier maneuvers. There are knit-alongs for chunky cowls and cute fingerless gloves. There’s an online store that sells the Fringe bag, which has come to be known in some circles as the Birkin of knitting bags. And there’s the blog where Templer puts her personal thoughts.
On January 7, she blogged excitedly about her upcoming trip to India. She wrote that 2019 would be her “year of color.” She said that as a child, India had fascinated her, and that when an Indian friend’s parents offered to take her with them on a trip, it was “like being offered a seat on a flight to Mars.” She spoke of her trip as if it were the biggest hurdle anyone could jump: “If I can go to India, I can do anything — I’m pretty sure.” Templer, it should be noted, is white.
As someone who is mixed-race Indian, to me, her post (though seemingly well-meaning) was like bingo for every conversation a white person has ever had with me about their “fascination” with my dad’s home country; it was just so colorful and complex and inspiring.
The initial comments on Templer’s blog post were supportive, but quickly, knitters and fans began to criticize her tone. “Karen, I’d ask you to re-read what you wrote and think about how your words feed into a colonial/imperialist mindset toward India and other non-Western countries,” wrote commenter Alex. “Multiple times you compare the idea of going to India to the idea of going to another planet — how do you think a person from India would feel to hear that?”
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A flitterflake?
I have often said that “In God We Trust” should be updated to a new national slogan, “You Owe Me an Apology.”
I just donated hundreds of knitting needles to a high school knitting group that makes hats for newborns. Maybe the left doesn’t want people talking amongst themselves. They should ban knitting.
Nothing brings together a bunch of liberals faster than something that’s none of their damn business
I had a roommate whose grandmother had knitted him a blanket with a different black girl in each square to keep him company at knight.
Same grandmother had crocheted him a wall plague with a black girl in a UT cheerleader outfit and UT flags that had the caption:
“Tell me quick before I faint
Is you for UT or is you aint?”
I am SURE literally tens of millions in India would look upon visiting the USA like going to another planet.
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First mystery—how to use a flush toilet.
Oh, what wonderful thing the heads on Air India domestic planes must be.
These Fill-in-the-blank - Americans want to be all proud of their culture.
So when someone is excited about their culture, it is now racism????????????????????????
And if you don’t like their culture, that is for-sure racism.
Racist if you do, racist if you don’t.
To poster moron “Alex”: Please look up the word exotic
“is you aint”
What race are the people from India?
We cannot continue to live with leftists. They are poisonous.
>First mystery—how to use a flush toilet.
Several years ago I went back east for a friends wedding. He is Indian, from a well off family, most of whom are still there. Many of the male visitors were crammed in to his apartment the night before the wedding.
About 3 in the morning I woke to the sound of his Grandfather repeatedly flushing the toilet and giggling.
I’ve felt somewhat alien in some places in America, so I’m pretty sure that feeling would be strengthened considerably if I were in India. I believe it is normal to feel that way when you don’t know the food, language, customs, etc.
Now, if she had asked me about India, I would have told her I’ve never given a rip about it. Would that make her feel better?
California & NY are other planets to me.
Never want to re-visit either one again.
Racism everywhere!
Just silly beyond imagination.
Is there anything that millennials or liberals cannot kill? Just because their so miserable, they have to make every one else feel the same.
Is there anything that millennials or liberals cannot kill? Just because they’re so miserable, they have to make every one else feel the same.
(Duel post to correct grammar error)
Memo to self: Don’t bother going to India.
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