A social network for knitting just made every other website look like goddamn cowards
Link to tweet
Sunday, June 23rd 2019
We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry.
This includes support in the form of forum posts, projects, patterns, profiles, and all other content. Note that your project data will never be deleted. We will never delete your Ravelry project data for any reason and if a project needs to be removed from the site, we will make sure that you have access to your data. If you are permanently banned from Ravelry, you will still be able to access any patterns that you purchased. Also, we will make sure that you receive a copy of your data.
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.
Policy notes:
You can still participate if you do in fact support the administration, you just can’t talk about it here.
We are not endorsing the Democrats nor banning Republicans.
We are definitely not banning conservative politics. Hate groups and intolerance are different from other types of political positions.
We are not banning people for past support.
Do not try to weaponize this policy by entrapping people who do support the Trump administration into voicing their support.
Similarly, antagonizing conservative members for their unstated positions is not acceptable.
[link:https://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump|
Heh. Well done them. A whole of nasty knitters are about to get their knickers in a twist!
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That sounds like a Trump supporter 
Like a hat that looks like a brick wall with “Build the wall” written on it.
My wife is on there right now laughing at all the supposed white Christian knitters who just logged on to Ravelry for the first time today telling everyone they are going to boycott them!
that they took the language of the ban almost verbatim from a role-playing game site I frequent. RPG.net banned any posts in support of the administration a few months back, and it clearly there’s enough crossover in the hobby that our silly little elfgame forum inspired Ravelry.
“Much of this policy was first written by a roleplaying game site, not unlike Ravelry but for RPGs, named RPG.net. We thank them for their thoughtful work.”
A win for social justice. 
One giant leap for mankind.
We have a section for off topic, non tech stuff and the administrators had to institute a no political speech policy after the off topic forum got too toxic to handle. Great for Ravelry for not going down that road. 
and take up knitting
I was under the impression that she had founded Ravelry. 
There are so many lovely new patterns for shrouds.
and never worry I'd have to somehow come through. Scary thought.
For anyone who wants to know what liberalism is, this example has liberalism written all over it, including their determination to be inclusive of and fair and protective to all, but standing against wrong by not allowing promotion of white supremacy on their site. We can be quite sure they vote too.
Thanks for this inspiring and encouraging post, Soph.
The two office Church Ladies have not only forsworn the site itself (the argument in essence is, "How does Ravelry consider itself inclusive if it is excluding white supremacists?"
, and are now, for reasons known only to their dull-witted little minds, avoiding knitting entirely.
Their boycott of Big Knitting has the office giggling at them.
Well, more than normal.
