“We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy”
Photo: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The popular knitting site Ravelry — which has more than 8 million users and is something like a combination Facebook, Google, Amazon, and public library for knitting and other textile crafts — announced on Sunday that it was “banning support of Donald Trump and his administration.” In its words, “We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy.
Past support of Trump won’t get you kicked off the site, which has a staff of five, and where people regularly buy and sell patterns, but new forum comments, patterns, and projects deemed “unacceptable” will be switched to “invisible” to the general community.
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