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.
Okay but… now that we’ve laid it out in the open with a referendum from YSF, it seems like the supermajority opinion of the site actually agrees with Z’s position on this one. It seems most people agree that radical Anti-Zionism is the correct position here. Shouldn’t that be taken into account?
EDIT: Sometimes it takes one particularly loud and persistent person to agitate until they get clobbered for the majority to speak up to change the state of things. Shouldn’t there be reconciliation when that happens?
I don’t care what Zs position is on the flag. I’m a fucking cracker in the imperial core, my take is moot and I’ll listen comrades in closer proximity to the Zionist entity’s opinion on the matter. Burning that flag isn’t for me, so its shouldn’t matter what I think about it.
However, the grievance I’m talking about is the accusations of death threats targeting zposter. I won’t fault anyone for wanting that air cleared, but it isnt a good look to also be actively pretending to be unaffiliated people trying to weave sympathy into threads for your original account at the same time. Why behave that way if youre just going to cave right away when talking directly to an admin? Be up front about your alt(s), demand to have that grievance resolved. Otherwise you just look like a wrecker doing wrecker shit. The behavior hasn’t convinced me they’re not doing wrecker shit, even if my views align on the flag issue.
What else are they supposed to do? There’s no user union and the rules say if you get banned, then create another account, so banning them for “ban evasion alts” actually doesn’t make sense. And if they get death threats / death wishes from one aggressive user who likes to verbally abuse people in arguments, then I can’t fault them for wanting to come back and argue for themselves, especially when other people wouldn’t want to wade into that personal shitstorm to defend them for fear of catching that verbal abuse or bans.
Also, burning that flag is for you because it’s for humanity, and besides, a lot of our future actually pivots around Palestine, it’s not just a regional issue.
The site has no means of permabanning a user because the IP of users is scrambled when created. Which is fine, vpns would make IP bans worthless anyway. So I agree that “ban evasion” holds very little water. (I wish there was a “by referral only” option for allowing account creation, but that’s another topic). This, it would seem, is an issue z is happy to exploit.
But is it really that hard to see how deceptive it would look if you had an alt and used it to comment “T34_69 was right and should never have been banned”? That interaction I linked doesn’t seem deceptive to you? The other user clearly didn’t appreciate the deception. Another user just told me z DM’d them pretending to not be zposter. It’s just strange behavior.
My understanding is z and nik have been beefing for a long time. It’s probably worth it to read their back and forth history to get the full picture of their engagement with each other.
The mod log is public.
Yeah I hear that, but a white boy from mayo city posting on a niche web form from his couch isn’t exactly the vanguard. There are more deserved voices then mine in this space, so I yield to them. I’ll use my voice offline where it has more material impact.
The only reason I’m bringing up Zs deceptive use of alts is to try and separate their long history of being agro from their alignment on this specific issue. They were not banned for their take, they have a history of being agro and have been banned in the past for a variety of things.
But they’ll keep making alts, and we should just be OK with that because they “have good takes” or are “ahead of the curve” or whatever.
If we want to keep them honest, just press them on COVID
Ha, yeah. Or just ask them how they feel about nik.
These two definitely have some well seasoned beef.
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Fair points, I’ll look into those when I have time / attention span again. I’ve probably only seen like 5% of their entire posting here. For the time being though,
Yeah I do agree with that actually, it sounds reasonable unless and until I find something concrete that changes that.
If the reason for hesitation is that they went about bringing the issue of mod abuse in the wrong way, I disagree with your hesitation. Half the reason I’m even in this thread as much as I am is because Zposter (or some other banned Arab user) messaged me from an alt this morning pretending they weren’t Z. That was disingenuous, but it also was a fairly effective way to get my attention, and when I uncovered the old incident with Nakoichi I figured their behavior made sense.
I mean, look at it this way: if you had a mod tell you to die, then other mods covered it up or gaslit you into thinking it didn’t happen, what tools do you have available to make this issue known? You’d probably do some irrational things.
Regardless, I still am skeptical that they should be unbanned. They may have done or said a lot of heinous things. That ought to be cleared up first IMO.
It just reads as manipulative to me, and it does seem to be effective.
Is that actual the case? How is it a cover up if you can just view the mod log publicly?
Take a look
Also note that the comment where Nakoichi tells Z to touch grass 6 feet under got “chill” as its removal reason.