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

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Yeah, very gaslight-ish argument.

    Now, there isn’t a way to say this without coming across as victim blaming or bothsidesing, but I can also see why Lyudmila reacted that way. Someone who was, at minimum, imitating Zposter has posted some extremely bad things before (to save you a click, they were using an incident of SA against an activist in PSL by another activist in PSL to defend the PCUSA). I think given this context I don’t expect Lyudmila to be removed over this incident, but I don’t think her response there should go unnoticed either.

    edit: Could be a copycat

    • anon_ascend [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      24 days ago

      How do you know that’s even them? They appear to have copy cats and that was a short-lived account

      I was just randomly banned on Sharia Law Z because Admins said I was a Z sockpuppet and I’m not.

      edit: They are using different pronouns and talk in a totally different way, and none of Zs accounts have blatant typos in them either