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I take what I read there (Quillette), however well-written and evidence-based and reasonable-seeming a particular article might be, with a large grain of salt. It was given that particular platform in order to serve a particular agenda.
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I totally agree, Julie. Which is why I was making the point that the liberal media shouldn't be so squeamish about criticising these social-media witch hunts, as that makes them the sole province of the conservative media's agenda. Bullying and self-righteous mob-rule, however ideologically progressive and justified the participants feel themselves to be, is not a good thing. The positive and earnest headline of the Vox piece ('The Knitting Community is Reckoning with Racism') is just as agenda based as the Quillette. It leads the reader to suspect a hotbed of white supremacy in the knitting world, when it turns out that the main evidence of 'racism' is some perfectly pleasant sounding woman looking forward to a trip to India and a gay man living with Aids being
called a white supremacist for writing a jokey poem suggesting that people should calm down.