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

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I read this initial thread when it was made and realized that people probably didn’t speak up further because A: we trusted the mods and B: we were afraid of the multiple mods who said this was a red line including the one who would realistically have to add and maintain this. At least that was my thinking that I was able to remember at the time.

    Also damn there are a lot of users who have left the site that I remember, I hate being a long time user. susie-loiter

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      people leaving the site is normal. its just a website, it won’t be a perfect fit with everyone forever, nor should it. There are definitely people I regret losing, but overall I don’t think it’s worth the heartache to worry about now that it’s done, we should just try to be better in the future. Both more principled, and less hostile