Americans who want to make knitting great again are no longer welcome on Ravelry, a popular online community for knitting and crochet.
“We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry,” read an announcement on their website. “We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy.”
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
Ravelry is an online knitting community with 8 million members, according to Business Insider.
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They are banning all forum posts, projects, patterns and profiles that “constitute support for Trump or his administration.”
Ravelry did not provide any specific reasons for the ban — so it’s not exactly clear what got their yarn ball in a tangle.
“Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy,” Ravelry declared.
While pro-Trump patterns and projects may be banned from Ravelry, there plenty of patterns for Obama hats and mittens — not to mention pink hats galore.
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