June 24, 2019
Knitting social network with 8 million registered users silences Trump-supporters as 'white supremacists'
By Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...s_trump_supporters_as_white_supremacists.html
Honestly, until this morning I had never heard of Ravelry, a "fiber arts" (AKA knitting, crocheting, weaving, etc.) social network with 8 million registered users, but it appears to have signed on to the effort to silence supporters of President Trump, while welcoming other political posts. But my friend who blogs under the name Bookworm is one of the 8 million (or was, until yesterday) and writes:
You can read the Ravelry announcement in full here. But it is full of extremist posturing with no basis in fact, such as:
As Bookworm notes, this is a rerun of the attempt to silence conservatives in the gaming community:
The impulse toward totalitarianism — silencing voices you disagree with rather than debating them — is a powerful current of life today. Those who engage in such tactics are bullies, pure and simple.
Alas, social media of all sorts — including arts and crafts — have been politicized and controlled by the Left. Ravelry will no doubt lose visitors — Bookworm gives instructions on how to withdraw from registration there — but that is apparently a price SJWs are willing to pay.
Ravelry logo via PJM.
Knitting social network with 8 million registered users silences Trump-supporters as 'white supremacists'
By Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...s_trump_supporters_as_white_supremacists.html
Honestly, until this morning I had never heard of Ravelry, a "fiber arts" (AKA knitting, crocheting, weaving, etc.) social network with 8 million registered users, but it appears to have signed on to the effort to silence supporters of President Trump, while welcoming other political posts. But my friend who blogs under the name Bookworm is one of the 8 million (or was, until yesterday) and writes:
You can read the Ravelry announcement in full here. But it is full of extremist posturing with no basis in fact, such as:
As Bookworm notes, this is a rerun of the attempt to silence conservatives in the gaming community:
The impulse toward totalitarianism — silencing voices you disagree with rather than debating them — is a powerful current of life today. Those who engage in such tactics are bullies, pure and simple.
Alas, social media of all sorts — including arts and crafts — have been politicized and controlled by the Left. Ravelry will no doubt lose visitors — Bookworm gives instructions on how to withdraw from registration there — but that is apparently a price SJWs are willing to pay.
Ravelry logo via PJM.
