Stay in your lane! Note that Jeremy Corbyn is a notorious anti-Semite, and a project celebrating an anti-Semite is, again, allegedly, permitted. Photo above created by Casey, co-founder and code monkey at Ravelry. "I don't have to listen to your b------t, a-----e" said another. Women in tiny, primitive villages who spent most of their lives bent over a plot of dirt produced embroidery that bested any artform from any other tradition. No. Vone Kevitz is near tears in her video. Jessica, Casey, community demands that you brush up against people you don't like. The impression one gets from this video is of two well-meaning young people who, in spite of Jessica's work as a study abroad advisor, may pay lip service to diversity, but who haven't experienced much diversity in real life, and who were totally freaked out by their encounters with people who think differently from they, who live in flyover country, or vote Republican, or worship Jesus. I do not believe that pro-Trump knitters are such a menace to world peace that they need to be banned, outright, from the world's premier knitting community. "The Joy of Knitting" urged Ravelry knitters to pray. It … Second Knitter: But you support the murder of gay people. The couple had been talking about building a centralized knitting clearinghouse, and at the start of 2007, fulfilling a New Year’s resolution, Casey started to build it. Consider Gary Slutkin's research that shows that violence is a contagion that can be amped up or tamped down with something as simple as human speech. I'm a Christian. "Knitting! Features. I'm not saying we ignore the worst in Nazis, or white supremacists, or child abusers. This bonding requires adherence to norms performed in neutral spaces, neutral spaces that are not the voting booth, the used car lot, the contentious schoolboard meeting. In short, I just do not believe Casey Forbes or his supporters. My sister is at the sewing machine, or maybe on the couch, knitting. Ce site est né, il y a 5 ans, mais un couple (Jessica et Casey) ont commencé à l’élaborer, il y a 7 ans. Informationen aus dem Register (Anmeldung an der Domänenentität) Informationen für Eigentümer . A norm like that treats everyone equally. But they lack the courage to go out and find that battle, and are limiting their pyrotechnic displays of heroism to keyboard yarn commentary. We built a community culture. I felt joy and peace, appreciation and gratitude, as I watched her fingers create beauty on fabric. I am 61 years old and grew up with discrimination. Indeed, the phrase "civil society" is Aristotle's. I am a sometimes knitter, but crochet a lot. It’s not good for the hand knitting industry and certainly not good for civic life in the USA. Someone is working on it but they haven't given me an ETA for a fix. Her first design came out in 2016 and was an immediate hit and her Ravelry Store now has over 22 gorgeous highly wearable designs. Twitter user @JoyceWhiteVance tweeted, "I’m proud to have been a member of Ravelry since 2007, member no. LEAVE. Knitting takes short, weak, individual fibers, and, using time-tested technique handed down by our ancestors to combine these fibers, creates art and craft that is beautiful, strong, and greater than any one of its constituent parts. Ou tout de suite après avoir lu tout ce que peut faire Ravelry.Il vous faudra créer un compte (gratuit) mais oh! If you exclude anyone from your so-called community who is different from you, you can never be blessed by that experience, that teaches you that what unites us is more important than what divides us. 70, 1 – AllegroModerato, performed by the US Army Strings, Public Domain. This expression means that one must not provide fellatio to oppressors. I hate that they think EVERY black person thinks alike. How safe do Americans feel when you insist that 63 million voters are KKK? I've lived and worked in societies where even little kids play with deadly weapons. When Otto talks of his dad the ironworker, Otto's face and demeanor utterly change. Exactly because real community demands that we brush up against people we don't like, real community offers us opportunities for spiritual growth that we can't find in purged enclaves we imagine to be pure. Second Knitter: CHRISTO-FASCIST TWUNT I'M REPORTING AND BLOCKING YOU. White fragility! Human beings are good at heart, and we can build brave, new worlds out of our best intentions. The hashtag #Ravelryinaccessibility on twitter shows the extent of the problems caused by the site redesign. We posted this awhile ago about the fiber community Ravelry ... As for Casey/Cassidy, he/she/it makes my skin crawl. If he had taken time to investigate, Colbert would have discovered that Ravelry's members have published allegations that Forbes has allowed discussions of violence against Sarah Palin, and allowed projects that involved caricatures of Donald Trump as a voodoo-doll-like pincushion or toilet paper cover, and a Jeremy Corbyn Christmas tree topper. Otto's dad was a Nazi – a Wehrmacht corporal who won two Iron Crosses for North Africa and the Eastern Front. Without these donations, they say, they would have had to move back in with their parents. 6377 out of approximately 8,000,000 knitters & crocheters who are members today. I'm a mostly homebound, sixty-year-old Kentucky widow whose husband died from black lung. As for Ravelry’s recent censorship tirade - two of my patterns triggered its very sensitive staff. About five of them were mildly hostile. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, spinning, and weaving.Members share projects, ideas, and their collection of yarn, fiber, and tools via various components of the site. Katrin Schneider. You want me to be killed! Selecting Judges September 30, 2018 “Just shut up and step up. Communities and Knowledge: A Look at Ravelry by Sunnie Kim and Sheila Pisa Introduction and Background Ravelry (www.ravelry.com), operating since April 2007 and currently having over 290,000 members, is an online community for knitters, crocheters, spinners, designers, and dyers. Those in the pro-Forbes group are imagining into being a monster, the hated other, the Trump voter, or even just the person who didn't support Trump but is leaving Ravelry because they support free speech. Why do I stand on dangerous street corners in gathering dusk, listening for the siren I have summoned, while I monitor an addict who is drooling helplessly onto the sidewalk? I know I've not gotten jobs because of my faith. Here's the footnote to these stories. 10 . First Knitter: Do you realize that you are attributing negative qualities to me based on my skin color? In addition Ravely has a merchandise store and it allows designers to sell patterns as digital downloads, taking a small fee. There’s a group of Twitter users that tweet at Casey daily, with specially created twitter accounts that are named after him, with tweet after tweet about everything from his looks, his family, his sexuality, his gender. Civil society requires building blocks that we in the West developed over four thousand years, beginning with that day when God told Abraham to "Go!". In the subsequent national conversation, Chinese commentators attributed this behavior to the Confucian emphasis on filial piety. Started:) Status Name Pattern Source Photos? "A lot of people helped us build Ravelry along the way. You're a healthy, twenty-something hipster from Portland, living off a trust fund you inherited because your dad did classified work at the Pentagon. Eigentümer-Land . Ravelry claims to have eight million users. Without civil society, you can carry as much firepower as you want. No surprise – he was a computer programmer, and it is he who coded the Ravelry website. Photo above created by Casey, co-founder and code monkey at Ravelry. CASEY RAVELRY . Ravelry is a community that is essential to yarnies. People are mocking the silliness of your controversy. Nach wie vor ist Ravelry die weltweit größte Strick-Community und einfach ein unumgänglicher Klassiker für alle, die das stricken und häkeln lieben und auf der Suche nach guten Anleitungen sind. I am not alone. And I have no sympathy for addicts. It's why anyone with any anthropological knowledge can tell you that wars to export democracy will never work. "I don't know how we would have ever made it to the self-sustaining company that we are today without all of the generous support from our users," Casey said. When participants in a community are told that certain thoughts are crimes against the state, everything in that community changes. Establish laws that punish bad behavior, and amplify the best in every human you meet. Another YouTube video alleges that an eleven-year-old atheist knitter group on Ravelry includes "vicious" anti-Christian material. Ermitteln Sie, ob ravel.me ist ein Betrug, betrügerische oder infiziert mit Malware, … I follow her every move. Why? Hi everyone! Search the publisher's website or … Evidently, police and white men are also enemies deserving of contempt. First Knitter: You just called me a hater! It's civil society. The Greeks pioneered it. But this otherwise bad father taught Otto ironwork. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, mainstream media, academia, and now Ravelry are redefining community. Find Olga Casey online. "Elizabeth" was in her early twenties, and she was dying in a remote "hospital" in a Nepali village. The above is not parody. I do all this from my home in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO, where I like to design patterns … Telephone +1.6173373028 . Even folks who don’t knit should care about the decision of Casey Forbes, Ravelry’s founder and owner. He responded in the GOP group, the only conservative group left on Ravelry after Conservative Knitters was forced to close. She was considering grad school at Harvard, where she was taking "fun extension courses," when she and her husband Casey put Ravelry together. An example of what disturbed me in the anti-Trump-voter camp: a "Fiber Craft Political Affiliation Public List," listing fiber arts suppliers, their ethnicity, religion, and whether or not they support Forbes' policy. He guided me to Elizabeth, lying on a rubber sheet with a hole cut in the bottom to accommodate all the fluid pouring out of her. Ravelry was created in 2007 by Casey and Jessica Forbes, a husband-and-wife team in Boston. When she isn’t working as an IT specialist, she’s knitting. Actually, comparing heroin addicts to zombies is an insult to zombies. Ravelry had a major server crash that led to a site outage last night, and we're still experiencing some difficulties and slowness today. Ravelry's webpage indicates that Ravelry's staff are all white. He responded in the GOP group, the only conservative group left on Ravelry after Conservative Knitters was forced to close. The list is clearly meant to encourage consumers to boycott or support venders based on their religion, ethnicity, and personal vote. Now, of course, the internet site that their donations and their content helped bring into being is closed to them. In a lengthy video interview with Fruity Knitting, Jessica Forbes, sitting next to a shelf stocked with Harry Potter books, described living in Boston and "trying to figure out what to do with my life." You can pop into the forums to ask questions or chat about patterns or projects, local fiber events, or even non-yarny subjects! For it to be that place, where the magic of civil society is forged, there must be norms. One pro-Forbes knitter posted, "When the cops passed in the pride parade, I stood there and flipped them off the entire time … The only people who approached me with negative remarks about how much 'hate I have in my heart' were white men." They are vital because they offer us a space to see the best in each other, and with that best, we bond, and build civil society. You can find patterns for sale and destashed yarn. The revolution eats its young. Is that not the very epitome of racism? How safe do Christians feel when you mock the crucifixion? I did see a screencap of a particularly ugly caricature of Donald Trump that was allegedly allowed on Ravelry. A commenter under Knipper's video wrote, "I am black, conservative and voted for Trump. Adding Ravelers to your friends will let you follow along with what they are making - feel free to start with any of us on the Ravelry team. Casey is: casey on Ravelry; caseyf on Twitter; And… Jessica is wearing her Metal Cardigan by Amy Christoffers. She shared a post from a pro-Trump knitter. There has long been a strong knitting community online, but Jessica found it chaotic and disorganized. Alors voilà, commençons par le commencement : Ravelry. In attempting to understand this bizarre story, I read hundreds of internet posts, and watched many YouTube videos, by those who support, and who reject, Forbes' new policy. Twitter: @SusanU. Ravelry is somewhat like the Amazon of the knitting world, with a side of social media. Her voice is patient, slow, and warm. Consider how quickly doctors and nurses, confronted with Hurricane Katrina, started talking about euthanasia. People were invested in it." One post said, "You're not supposed to deepthroat the boot." ", The posts in the group of people who did not support Forbes' policy were, for the most part, grammatically correct, properly punctuated, contained few obscenities, and rarely veered into all caps "shouting.". A week or two after the purge, Casey, the site owner, responded to a woman who wasn't banned but didn't want to financially support a site that is biased against her by buying patterns on that interface. I do not demand that I be "protected" and "made to feel safe." Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Images, Youtube and more on IDCrawl - the leading free people search engine. First Knitter: That's not true! I was also told that Forbes was banning some Christian-themed needlework projects. The colors, the technique, the variety, are all without equal. By the way, you keep saying you want everyone to feel "safe." One of these friends is a member of a black church. On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Casey Forbes, Ravelry's developer, owner, and administrator, released a statement forbidding users to post in support of Donald Trump. I have no idea if these allegations are true – Ravelry is not accepting new members. First Knitter: I think we should try to see the best in everyone. They are erecting and inhabiting a fantasy world. You should be silent and listen to me. Me? The Forbeses openly acknowledge that Ravelry required donations from users to get off the ground. Your community is not based on love for each other. In the group that rejects Forbes' policy, in my first post, I plainly identified myself as someone who is not a Trump fan. 6377 out of approximately 8,000,000 knitters & crocheters who are members today. I prefer no political talk at all. As for Casey’s decision, I believe in free speech and if ravelry is his private business he can do what he wants understanding the risks involved (losing members) One ☝️ f the LYS I FREQUENT has a no politics discussion posted. The post received more than 9,500 likes and 1,600 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, center). They seemed delighted about the whole thing. These mostly white addicts guarantee that my young black and Hispanic neighbors, mere children, are growing up on streets littered with hypodermics and glassine envelopes. In response to the very few posts questioning my intentions, people stepped up and said, paraphrase, "Don't give her a hard time. I also paint in acrylic and watercolor. I just tried one more time to log in, and I’m still banned, but I have a private message waiting – most frustrating, since I can’t read it. These women were courteous, sane, and calm. I do all this from my home in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO, where I like to design patterns … Professional librarians helped them organize. Forbes, the Fruity Knitting interviewer commented, was "a little bit geeky." What you're doing now does damage to those three words. That would be much more exciting than what actually transpired. Casey Day-Crosier I’m the sole owner and operator of Tangerine Designs, Mommy, LYS Helper, Knitter, Spinner, wannabe Weaver, and loving torturer to my red-headed husband. Ravelry once was that neutral space, where Christians and atheists, coastal Harvard grads and flyover housewives, could share the same appreciation of the same beautiful artistry. I choose environments where free speech reigns. The solution is not to declare these people non-persons and disappear them to the Gulag. What we take most for granted in America is something we can't bottle. White denial! But. I joined two Facebook groups, one of former Ravelry members who did not support Forbes' new anti-Trump-voter policy, and one of Ravelry members who do support the anti-Trump-voter policy. Join a group focused on your favorite designer or shop, crafts or techniques, your local area, a craft-along, or other common interests. Casey and Jessica want Ravelry’s users with small businesses to be able to afford to advertise on the site so they created an advertising model to allow for this. Jessica and Casey, it looks like you've lived lily white lives. During the Fruity Knitting interview, Casey Forbes, in contrast to his wife Jessica, rarely makes eye contact with the camera. Blessings.". You can taste some of this madness yourself in the posts linked here. J’avais décidé que je parlerais de ravelry une bonne fois et c’est aujourd’hui. Too scared to use my fake name. Vérifiez ravelrycache.com site est une arnaque ou un site Web sécurisé. Ravelry only tolerates ardent Progressivism - and you thought it was just about ‘knitting’ so much for ‘inclusiveness’ ! Lara Casey est chrétienne et parle beaucoup de sa foi, qui est un élément central de sa vie, comme peuvent par exemple en attester les articles récapitulatifs mensuels de son blog personnel. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, mainstream media, academia, and now Ravelry are redefining ... and it is he who coded the Ravelry website. Identifying crafts venders' ethnicity, skin color, and sexual orientation chills me. Another said, "She sounds like a typical deluded extreme Christian to me. The remaining posts were civil. God bless Tennessee." "The term civil society goes back to Aristotle's phrase koinonia politike … [civil society is] characterized by a shared set of norms and ethos, in which free citizens on an equal footing lived under the rule of law. Find Aimee Hardy online. A week or two after the purge, Casey, the site owner, responded to a woman who wasn't banned but didn't want to financially support a site that is biased against her by buying patterns on that interface. The goal of civil society was eudaimonia, often translated as human flourishing or common well-being." I feel comfortable and lucky. It is sad. Forbes' announcement hit national media. It builds monstrosities: police states, gulags, hatred. It's my attempt at a faithful if anonymous recreation of actual discourse I encountered in some closed groups. Ravelry is your new virtual fiber circle with over 9 million yarn-loving friends! I could be wrong, but I think you and many whites on the left are trying to expiate the guilt you feel by smearing all Trump voters. My mother was from Slovakia; my father was Polish. Users helped them to upload patterns into their database. Hate-mongering politics has saturated the most petty aspects of our lives. "Inside Every Progressive 2012-06-05: Finished 'lil chucks: Baby Converse: loopysue Designs: 2: 2016-02-22: Finished: A Leaf Falls: A Leaf Falls: Lili Comme Tou I have. Further, in spite of my sharp criticisms, none of my Trump supporting Facebook friends has harassed me. To make things worse, we did wear hand-me-downs, there was excessive use of both alcohol and fists, and my parents did work menial jobs: we seemed to be living proof of every stereotype. One post in that group was a picture of a Bible with the caption, "The Good News Is Jesus Dies on Page 681" with a laughing emoji. The solution is found in our ideal of civil society, in which "free citizens on an equal footing live under the rule of law." In advance of the 2020 election, no space in the internet square is safe from "inclusive" exclusion. Second Knitter: Peak Whiteness! But there's more to it than that. I thought Elizabeth was a snob who rejected me because of my social class. Danusha Goska is the author of God through Binoculars: A Hitchhiker at a Monastery, A Daily Blog By Shillman Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield, A Project of the Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Images, Youtube and more on IDCrawl - the leading free people search engine. One of the shared norms enjoyed by citizens on equal footing with each other was free speech. I saw many such posts in private internet environments so I can't quote them here, but I can paraphrase them. Others, who didn't especially like me, have helped me. Ravelry est un site, du genre social mais avec des applications ayant rapport au tricot. I have knit & crochet hats, jewelry, cowls, gloves, and other items available in my Etsy shop and through Facebook. The norm, "I get to insult Christians and white people but you can't criticize me, and anyone who thinks politically incorrect thoughts must be demonized and disappeared," is not a norm that builds community. Even folks who don’t knit should care about the decision of Casey Forbes, Ravelry’s founder and owner. Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters. More recent life-saving is less elevated. Casey Forbes is from New Hampshire, a state that also has a one percent African American population. I have used my profits to stock a local foodbank frequented by local poor folk, many of them black. It … Again, I beg to differ. The Oppressor is not allowed to lecture the Oppressed! I watched ten videos by women rejecting Forbes' new policy. Both frightening and slapstick elements combine in this ridiculous nightmare. Badly. "Eat a big bag of dicks," one post said. Die Community wurde 2007 vom Ehepaar Casey und Jessica Forbes gegründet und zwar ganz ohne Gewinnabsichten und so ist es bis heute geblieben. We have to learn to see the best in each other, or else we never truly see ourselves, because we, too, are flawed. Same folks who knit hats for the women’s march taking the lead on calling out hate." It is tough, he said, "Being in my house and missing the sun for a whole summer.". Ravelry was founded by husband-and-wife team Casey and Jessica Forbes in 2007. Ravelry’s new policy has drawn support, backlash, criticism, and everything in between. Recent Posts. "We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. auf Twitter teilen ; auf Google+ teilen ; Teilen Sie auf LinkedIn . Si vous ne connaissez pas Ravelry & que vous faites du crochet ou du tricot, allez y faire un tour tout de suite.

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