The Dark Underbelly of Ravelry.com For those of us in the fiber arts community, Ravelry.com was THE go-to site for patterns, forums, and a place to sell. With the recent Ravelry policy changes effective June 23, 2019, any support of President Donald John Trump. his administration and/or policies now constitutes HATE SPEECH. What follows is directly from Ravelry.com: "For over 10 years, we've had a hate speech policy on Ravelry, and our No Trump Support policy is an extension of that.We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is unambiguously support for white supremacy." https://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump Let's take a look at how Ravelry defines "hate speech and hateful imagery": "Hate Speech and Hateful Imagery Words, phrases, or images deemed by Ravelry's owners to express, either deliberately or unknowingly, hatred or contempt towards a group of people, based on areas such as their ethnic, cultural, religious or sexual identity, gender, socio-economic class, or with reference to physical health or mental health, are not allowed." It has always been my assumption that hateful speech and/or imagery is ALWAYS DELIBERATE AND WITH FOREKNOWLEDGE. Apparently, Casey and Jessica Forbes who founded Ravelry.com and turned it into a highly profitable internationally recognized company are now defining thought crimes for the fiber arts community. This is the USSR Gulag born again. Over 1 million Russians who did not agree with Soviet Socialism died in the Gulag. People reported that they had no idea they were being arrested by the Commissars and imprisoned, except that they MIGHT have had anti-Communist ideas that they did not acknowledge and atone for. Now we have fun-loving Casey and Jessica telling us that we can be UNKNOWING Haters and fabricators of hateful imagery and that all President Trump supporters are by association are white supremacists (God bless and guide BCP!!).  Let me put this in perspective:  In 2018, there was a Ravelry artist who was being abused by the management of Ravelry. The "crime" was that the artist was selling a very cool knitted winter hat pattern that said "Trump 2020" - she was abused to the point of removing her entire shop from Ravelry.com reportedly by Mr. 'inclusive' Casey himself. Meanwhile very lewd, defaming, and disgusting yarn patterns against our beloved President were ALWAYS put into the "Hot Right Now" list. Pussy hat patterns multiplied overnight. Like other social media "platforms", Ravelry LLC is anything but INCLUSIVE. They are editorial from the top down. Casey and Jessica Forbes have knit up a fabricated STRAW MAN named Donald Trump and then began dictating company policy based on their creation. God forbid that anyone except Donald John Trump win in 2020. Otherwise lots of us will be sent to the American Gulag to the cheers of Ravelry.com.  I just hope a ravelry-like shop is opened up where an individual who took the time to craft a MAGA ski hat can sell in the United States of America. BTW I bought that TRUMP 2020 ski hat. God bless and guide President DJT and the alliance for Truth.