The Newest Hotbed of Racism
DMF: For some people these days, every single thing is about race. This article in Vox, a web site for low-information young people, reads like a parody. But I am pretty sure it is serious. The topic? “The knitting community is reckoning with racism.” Personally, I didn’t even know there was a “knitting community.” It begins with a young (white) knitter who expressed enthusiasm about an upcoming trip to India on social media: more
Fix your neanderthal caste system that consigns the darkest skinned Indians to a literal ‘untouchable’ class and then get back to me about yarn.
Fuggin’ Ganges guzzlers need to shut up until they stop using low caste human beings as human roto routers in their sewers.
Oh…I thought somebody had made a noose.
My daughter knits and crochets, she joined a knitting/crocheting group on FB thinking it would be about sharing patterns, etc. It was nothing more than a SJW group, non-smokers against smokers donating or selling items. Pussy hat wearers feeling dissed by those who wouldn’t make them hats or give them the pattern. How they needed to reach out to black people to join their group because the group had too many white women. I guess black women are just too dumb to find the group and join on their own.
My daughter ended up getting kicked out of the group because she posted a picture of a pussy hat that really looked like one and said she was willing to take the money of any idiot who wanted to show the world they were an idiot by wearing it.
She had already been given a warning because she said they were idiots, you crochet/knit a blue blanket for a baby boy, pink for a baby girl or yellow if they don’t what sex their baby will be.
Who knew even something as harmless as knitting/crocheting has to also be PC and a SJW club.
What about quilters? Since most of them are probably white middle aged ladies or older who love to quilt. My late wife was a quilter as well as a knitter of many balls of yarn as was my mom. I still have most of her quilting stuff and a closet full of unused yarn which my daughter is starting to use to knit baby blankets and such for my granddaughters. Aren’t they guilty of alleged racism also. Everything involving white people is racist now, at least allegedly so, gimme a friggin break. My mom before she died clung furiously to a knitted blanket that my wife made for her years ago, she was like Linus Van Pelt, it was her security blanket.
Winterized banana hammocks were the first victims to go….
Replace those “T’s” with “G’s” and I agree!
You still have a silent K in knitters Lester, you racist bastard, so does that stand for Klan.
The biggest knitting, crocheting fiber community is Ravelry and it’s very leftist on many of the forums. You know, a bunch of ze, zim whatever users. Conservatives aren’t welcome. I stay because of the massive pattern library and a few conservative friends. Recently someone made a hat with a hat band that said ‘Build The Wall’ and offered it for free. The pattern was removed because it’s rude and racist. The ‘F— Trump’ hat design is allowed to stay.
I am told I am a racist knitter because I buy indie dyed yarn that poor, poor people of color can’t afford. Just another of the SJW’s racism of low expectations. My favorite indie dyer on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/MitchellsC Oh gee she is brown skinned so she must be an Aunt Thomasina because brown-skinned people can’t really afford this. There is at least one other knitter here so this is another favorite indie dyer https://suburbanstitcher.com and she’s white just adding to my racism.
These shitwit leftists taint every thing in the universe and I am fed up with them. They tainted another craft site some time ago with their ‘sfety pin’ craft to designate a safe zone from the evil Trump. They crap every where including where they eat.
My mother left me her very vintage steel knitting needles and I am going to weaponize them. Maybe I’ll make nooses with bulky weight yarn while I’m at it.
Old Racist White Woman and Eugenia –
Even DOG GROUPS are like this.
I have a facebook friend who joined some dog groups. Most of the members are SJW’s, and funny enough, they also turn on each other! The usual catty women crap. personal assaults, fat jokes, snide remarks about how they ‘raise’ their dogs, the food they’re given, they’re always reporting each other to FB authorities, etc.
It’s pathetic.
But, MEN are the problem. Ask those women, they’ll tell ya!
Gotta go sign up for knitting lessons right away.
@Eugenia – I stay on Ravelry for the same reasons you do. It is a great resource for patterns and yarn. I have noticed, especially since Trump was elected, that they are moving more and more to the left. I block any pattern designers that post patterns for pussy hats or F*** Trump apparel. How about some safe spaces for us poor conservatives who just want to practice their craft without politics.
I have an SJW club but so far haven’t used it…
“People who annoy you”..KNITTERS!
“How about some safe spaces for us poor conservatives who just want to practice their craft without politics.”
Speaking as one of the 200 who were outright banned with no notice and on the basis of concocted excuses (there were many) over ten years ago from ravelry, I can state with complete certainty, conservatives are not permitted to gain traction there. Groups are monitored. Posts are policed for correct content and sentiment, or deleted. Private messages aren’t. F-Trump patterns are permitted. Build the Wall hat patterns are not, because reasons.
Apparently, this happened in the quilting forums also. That it’s going on now in knitting is a recycling of the hatred witnessed when preezy won. What’s particularly bad about it is those who are insufficiently groveling are being hounded online and having their small businesses threatened, if not outright destroyed by the digital mob, should they not join in with the self-flagellation and volunteer to use some half-assed ‘workbook’ about white privilege, whatever the hell that is this week. Most of it’s happening on instagram, so I’ve managed to avoid the worst of it, and those of us who do not hold to the social consensus there have moved on to places out of the reach of Casey, Jessica & co. I do not buy patterns through ravelry, nor do I join in on any of the discussions there that add to the site’s cachet as a happening place (HA) by engaging. I hope they’re enjoying their echo chamber.
If you like howler monkey-level discussion with all the ease found in the give and take of a gulag, sign on and have at it. Be prepared to read about mental health as an excuse for a lot of really bad treatment of others. You’ll get sick of the term ‘triggered’.
Liberalism makes toxic everything it touches. It’s sick.
MJA it’s like that on farm groups and hunting groups as well. Damn hippies with their acre of land thinking they’re big time farmers saving the planet.
@riverlife_callie and Rosalind J, there are 2 active conservative groups, or one is really sort of active. Main group is leaving Ravelry for another forum or possibly private FB group. I haven’t PM’d the creator for the address because I would rather come here. The group ‘The Big Issues’ I think it’s called is nothing but AOC raving loons. I made the mistake of looking twice.
Most of the patterns I have from Rav are the fee downloads with some purchased from my favorite lace designers.
@MJA, fortunately the cat groups I belong to are either run by other conservatives/Christians or refuse to allow any off topic issues at all. Thank God I live in a red coun ty so don’t usually have to listen to asshats in public.
Eugenia, if you find a crochet/knitting group, my daughter does both, but much prefers crochet, without all the SJW bs let me know.
She told me I only joined to get different ideas and pattern sharing, but idiots screw everything up. lol