Super popular knitting community site Ravelry has banned the expression of support for trump or his administration explaining that equates with support for white supremacy.
Impressed – Knitters got balls. balls of yarn, I mean.
buzzfeed article here
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Good for you, Ravelry! 
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Unless you are showing off your poor taste at making a MAGA afghan then there is no need for pro any politician talk on a knitting bbs. You want to get into that go somewhere else.
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Burkas or comfy throw blankets throw down of 2019.
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Bravo Ravelry! I had read a while ago that trumptrolls were disrupting the forums, good on them for taking a stand.
(Member since 2013)
ETA any interest from the stitchers on the BBS on starting a Boing Boing group there?
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If so, I’m in. I’m not working on anything at the moment, but I joined Ravelry last year (and now I’m glad I did!) I crochet, so I’ve browsed patterns there, but I haven’t done any groups or forums yet.
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…who talks politics at a knitting group? I don’t know the politics of most people I work with. Ain’t my place to know. Ain’t their place to say.
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They knitted in Paris.
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It looks like this was partially inspired by RPGnet’s decision last year:
I hope this trend continues. As the 2020 election approaches, sites that aren’t about political debate need to start considering if they want to to be remembered as enabling fascists.
ETA: obligatory for these topics:
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There’s a lot of butt hurt magats - who have never touched a skein of yarn in their life - feeling all victimized by Ravelry, and are getting ripped a new one by a bunch of blue-haired old lady* stitchers on teh tweeters! LULZ to be had!
*Okay, I know all stitchers aren’t old ladies, but I giggled at the idea of an army of grannies telling the trumptrolls off.
Full disclosure - I am old, my hair is sometimes blue, and I am bistitchual. 
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Yes. I’m currently on a summer-in-the-Deep-South induced hiatus, but I have a few things on the needles.
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I haven’t been very active on Ravelry beyond pattern browsing since the Obama years (…sigh…), and the limited number of forum topics I participated in regularly back then were already subject to some awful interactions. It’s an online social network, one centered around yarn-related crafts, but still a social network with all that goes with that. So, color me unsurprised that the pro-Trump, aspirational Fascists have done there what they do everywhere else.
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Well, I only crochet, which disappointed my father. He told my mother, “I didn’t raise my daughter to be a hooker.”
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On RPGnet, overtly political discussion is siloed seperately from the forum’s core purpose (talking about elfgames) - is it the same on Ravelry?
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I would say the same thing for any number of hobby or fandom sites / boards I’ve visited, but somehow there’s always people who find a stray thread they can cling to, bait people into saying something vaguely anti-Trump, and eagerly go off on a huge rant about how they’re being treated unfairly, that Trump supporters are discriminated against, etc. It’s amazing how excited they get about pretending to be insulted.
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If these reddit posts on the subject are accurate, they aren’t siloed. Apparently there are MAGA knitting patterns (insert obvious joke here):
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The equivalent of that behaviour on RPGnet would be, I guess, running a play-by-post game of RaHoWa or some other terrible garbage. Though I suspect that wouldn’t have flown even before the ban on posts in support of Trump.
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I’ve been a Ravelry member for do long that I can’t even remember my login info. 
I’d seriously consider being more active there if BBS peeps had a group.
FTR - I’m tristichual, having picked ip tatting in the late 90’s. 
Crochet was learned at age 7, and knitting at age 9.
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