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

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Putting aside whether Zposter should be banned or not (unban zposter) Nakoichi’s behaviour is unacceptable from a member of the community, let alone a mod. At the very least they should step down as a mod and do some self-crit.

    Zionism should not be tolerated. The fact that Hexbear policy was/is to the right of the fucking American government on this is embarrassing

    • trinicorn [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      6 days ago

      The fact that Hexbear policy was/is to the right of the fucking American government on this is embarrassing

      This just isn’t true (at least not since oct 7th, idk what the exact moderation stance was 3-4 years ago.) posting images of the zionist flag burning has been allowed that whole time, there just wasn’t an emote for it (which given the context of all the other flag burning emojis, was a mistake), because of one person’s discomfort with it. Other admins could have added it, but didn’t feel it was necessary or strategic (again, with hindsight definitely a mistake, but not “to the right of the American government”)