After Jesse gives Katie a travel update and Katie gives Jesse a goat update, Katie tells Jesse about one of the most low-key deranged online communities, knitters, and their scorched-earth war against injustice sparked by an unspeakably violent analogy.
The original ‘offensive’ post about India:
https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-color/
Apology:
https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/12/words-matter/
DeplorableKnitter:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/deplorableknitter
Ravelry’s no-Trump-supporters-allowed announcement:
https://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump
Community guidelines:
https://www.ravelry.com/about/guidelines
The Daily Beast’s ( :( ) coverage:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-glass-and-the-racism-drama-unraveling-the-knitting-world
The first article in Quillette’s three-part series on all this:
https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-on-instagram/
Image: “Woman knitting at home, close-up” via Getty.
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