Hey all. I’d like to open an official discussion regarding the upturning of the prior Hexbear party line on an :israel-cool: emote proper with the unambiguous Zionist flag.
I want to preface this by saying this is not in a ‘ceding the issue’ way. Over the past year I’ve been trying to engage in self-crit w/rt the chauvinism I’ve internalized growing up in a Liberal Zionist household, and my personal viewpoint on it did a 180 some months back, so I want to reopen this discussion proper in my personal capacities as Self-Appointed Emote Czar.
The reason it’s taken long enough beyond that is prior to July, I was essentially half-engaged with the site in order to finish out my degree. After that, it’s been mostly inertia of confirming with the admins and other /c/Judaism mods, as well as having to be rigorous about my job search personally giving me little free time to coordinate this.
I do not want to center myself in this conversation more than I inadvertently already have, so I will leave my own opinion on the issue as a comment rather than explaining further here.
The consensus we’ve roughly come to is to open up the discussion in an official manner for a day or so. After that, I’ll weigh the discussion in an entirely vibes-based manner (sorry Dean Norris enjoyers) and we’ll alter Hexbear party line on it accordingly.
For what it’s worth, I personally forgave you over this a while ago after I got banned in the initial struggle session on this like 5 years ago. I also didn’t realize I was arguing with a teenager at the time lol. Good post, thank you for the work you have put in over the years on this site. I am glad you have stuck around and grown.
EDIT: I also just want to say something that I said to you 5 years ago: Israel and zionists don’t get to define Judaism or who you are as a Jewish person because they cynically slap a Star of David on a flag to hide their actions behind. ✡️ and 🇮🇱 aren’t the same thing and there are plenty of good things about Judaism that are perverted by a bunch of assholes hiding their despicable actions behind a religion.