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"If you want to be free, make up your mind now that if the mob comes after you, you will not stand down." Amen.

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Yikes. I’m curious but I do not have the mental capacity open any of those knitting links. Sounds bananas.

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I remember being so sad about ravelry in 2019/2020. Blows my mind that people can take over something with such a vengeance. There's a particular yarn store in KCMO that comes to mind, they have such a gorgeous selection but the owners are so. Darn. Angry. and I can't justify visiting when I go to KC anymore.

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Great post, Leila! Mob rule is straight out of the playbook of the French Revolution.

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Exactly!

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I love your call to bravery in the face of the mob. If it was worth saying, doing, or being it is still so regardless of what the Paris commune, BLM, or the Politboro say (or do). I think it would have been far more effective for that yarn author to ignore the barbs of the mob and double down with a second, third, eighth article on the joy she found in India. In our society you can either hide in the corner and do nothing ( in which case the bullies win) or live life... "despite them."

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Wise words for when the mob turns its horns toward you. I am a quilt maker. When the knitting world turned itself into a crazed lefty mob, I prayed that the quilt world would remain immune to the contagion. So far it has.

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Well, it's just a microcosm, anyway.

Out in the regular world of business, school, and cultural interactions, the mob has reigned and silenced people out of fear of being attacked.

If they could make people wear masks and then STILL WEAR THEM NOW, they have shown their ascendancy.

We have to push back and regain some ground!

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What about the mob incited by Donald Trump that created chaos, death and confusion? BLM did nothing like that. The "woke left" hardly owns the concept of a mob.

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Saying it that way doesn't make it so. There is no parallel here. And I didn't say the left owns the concept.

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You attribute cancel culture to the left and then you say it's better to think of that in term of mob action, so your clear implication is that the left is most culpable with respect to mob action. Yet the Jan 6 insurrection is the very definition of mob action, which was aimed at silencing the voices of the majority of voters who cast their ballots in favor of Biden and Harris.

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