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Re:How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting Community by nemo44x on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:20AM (#26555340)
It’s hard to do when a very vocal and intimidating group of activists insist everything is political. “Silence is violence”, after all.

One of the commands the various Critical Therories have is to find ‘X’ in everything and expose it. Don’t ask if ‘X’ happened but rather find how ‘X’ happened. ‘X’ can mean racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, etc. And often these terms, like racism, have been redefined to mean something different than what most people think.

So, you can’t just have a nice hobby community according to these therories. You absolutely must unmask the “problematics” in them or else you are perpetuating systemic racism or the patriarchy, or whatever. Any denial that ‘X’ was somehow present is further proof it did happen. Denial is further evidence of guilt. If you don’t join in on the pile-on then you will be cast out and accused of ‘X’ as well and at best have to find new friends and at worst having your livelihood destroyed. So there’s a lot of incentive to “do better”.

Re:How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting Community by nerdponx on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:34AM (#26555529)
You're being downvoted, but this is true.

The disagreement is over whether it's a good thing (break a few eggs, make a better-society-overall omelette) or a bad thing (anyone can get canceled at any time, everyone divided).

Re:How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting Community by auntienomen on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:25AM (#26555403)
The problematics usually unmask themselves. Ravelry is, I think, struggling with the question of how to deal with their more irascible members.