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.

lea-bounce

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        40·
        13 days ago

        The mods have acted like even wanting, much less demanding, an apology for any action of theirs is “wrecker behavior” literally since the site started which is wack because 1) they act like they’re liable for the Death Penalty or something, like the Court of Public Opinion is a real thing they are subject to, like who tf cares if someone thinks they’re power tripping or whatever, their opinion isn’t gonna steal the site from them or anything lol that’s not how shit works, but they act like it’s some sort of threat to their authority??? and 2) it’s ironically more “wrecker behavior” than half the actual wrecker shit coming in here. Like I don’t think the slow crawl from “literally having a feedback and ban appeal comm” to “nobody gets unbanned unless they’re (critically) beloved and others with influence on the site publicly ask for it in a thread about a stupid struggle session” has been GOOD trajectory for the site

        Like if i weren’t a broke shithead i’d put money on that “i want an apology” comment being what set off whoever did the ban

        Edit: also super ironic given they tried to make people subject themselves to public digital pillory “posting in self crit” to beg an unban

    • Cat_Daddy [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      13 days ago

      I think it was the struggle sessions about having the real flag vs the alternative flag we have now. Like, two weeks ago, maybe? Not sure on the timeline.