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.
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.
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
good points, no hard feelings on disagreements here, more power to you