On Sunday, an online knitting community with 8 million members called Ravelry announced it was banning support for President Donald Trump and his administration on its site.
It said that it would ban posts or content supporting Trump, but it would not delete project data, nor would it ban members who support Trump, as long as they don't talk about it.
"We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy," a Ravelry blog post said. "Support of the Trump administration is undeniably [in] support [of] white supremacy."
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Ravelry, an online knitting community with over 8 million members, has banned support of President Donald Trump and his administration.
Knitters go to Ravelry to discuss and post knitting patterns and projects. On Sunday, Ravelry announced that it will ban support for Trump in forum posts and content, but data about projects and patterns will not be deleted.
We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. More details: https://t.co/hEyu9LjqXa — Ravelry (@ravelry) June 23, 2019
According to Ravelry's new policy, members who support the Trump administration can still participate on Ravelry, but they can't talk about it on the site. It said that it was not endorsing Democrats, nor was it banning Republicans.
The policy also said it was not banning conservative politics or people for their past support, and antagonizing conservative members for unstated positions is not acceptable.
Leading up to the Women's March in January 2017, many knitters had posted patterns on Ravelry for pink "pussy hats" that people could wear to the protest.
Mieko14 on June 24th, 2019 at 11:16 UTC »
It took me way, WAY too long to realize this was about knitters and not kittens. I was wondering how the fuck eight million kittens were on social media.
dethb0y on June 24th, 2019 at 07:35 UTC »
LOL what, there's a fuckin giant social network for knitters out there? That's wild i never would have guessed!
JDGumby on June 24th, 2019 at 01:33 UTC »
...hence their No Trump rule. (Copied from the source because Business Insider seems only able to do outrage in support of Trump these days...)
(edit: fixed the malformed link. The perils of Redditting just before bed :p)