The Woke Social Justice Knitters Strike Again! Get the original pattern and video from the Westknits Mystery Knit-A-Long 2023
Stephen West can bend the knee to the woke cancel mob, but that doesn't mean we have to.
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The first awareness I ever had of the woke left and social justice cancel mobs came from the knitting world when mobs of woke knitters were running around canceling anyone who step out of line with their far-left ideology.
This was in 2019.
The knitting wars are still going today.
And they finally got their biggest target after years of trying: Stephen West.
For those who aren’t knitters, Stephen West is the biggest knitting designer in the world. He has always tried to stay out of the knitting wars, but the cancel mob was always coming for him…and they finally got him to bend the knee.
Last week, Stephen’s annual Mystery Knit-A-Long started, which is when Stephen releases a new clue each week of a shawl and we all knit it together without knowing what we’re knitting.
However, this year, the cancel mob attacked, convincing Stephen that the first clue for his shawl looked like a swastika hate symbol.
Does this look like a hate symbol to you?
Of course it doesn’t.
But remember, the woke mob doesn’t care. The only thing they care about it power and control, and they committed to hammering their target until he gave in and declared that he was removing this clue and that none of us were allowed to knit it.
I released this video discussing the incident at the time, and committed to knitting the original clue in defiance:
When I released this video and politely questioned Stephen in his comments why people couldn’t have a choice, I was blocked by him.
I’ve knit Stephen West shawls almost exclusively for a decade. I’ve spent thousands of dollars in his store. All I said to him was that people should have a choice and dismissing those who didn’t agree with the woke cancel mob was wrong.
To be blocked by my favorite designer for asking why people couldn’t be adults and make the choice for themselves which they knit was disappointing, to stay the least.
Today, I woke up and found this email in my inbox:
And Stephen also released this video basically breaking down crying and begging for people to ignore the original clue:
We don’t bend the knee to outrage mobs.
I’m not unsympathetic to the stress that Stephen has been put under. As someone who has undergone multiple cancel mob attacks, it takes a toll.
However, bending the knee is never the best option. Just because Stephen has bent the knee and is now controlled by the woke mob doesn’t mean we have to.
If you want to knit the original clue, you should be able to.
I ask that you only use this file if you purchased the pattern from Stephen. My goal in releasing it is not to deprive him of business - I will not release future clues.
My goal is to give people a choice, and allow them to be adults and trust them to make the best choice for them.
Here is the original PDF pattern for Clue 1 that Stephen West removed:
Here is the original video from Clue 1 that Stephen West removed on YouTube:
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There are a lot of people on Ravelry begging for Stephen to put the original Clue 1 video back up on YouTube. I'll see if I can send them in your direction. I should have known you would have it saved. 👍
It's so frustrating that this is the eventuality we reached. Your efforts to curve this in an attempt to to neutralize the cancel mob was unfortunately in vain. Worse still you were blocked by the guy you were trying to save. I don't know why it took me this long to figure out you is to knitting as I am to video games, but I understand this is probably the most frustrating thing you have to deal with besides teaching the lot of us how all this is going down.