Let me be honest and say that this is due to @borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml getting banned for a badly worded anti-Zionist post. I was hoping you'd may be publicly talk over it and reconcile
Original post that got him banned
Why should I give a shit about anti-Semitism?
The state that exists in your name committed a genocide, of course you're gonna be hated. Most Jews still support Israel, even if there is a vocal pro-Palestinian minority. Don't expect people to not make wide ranging generalisations. Jewish people are by no means oppressed, they have been fully integrated into "whiteness". They are the oppressors, not the oppressed. It's like if your primary concern was whether or not Germans would get pogrom'ed after they did the Holocaust. Completely nonsensical. This constant victim mentality drives me fucking nuts, man. You're not gonna be genocided, so stop acting like it.
Note: welp I think I came off the wrong way with this post, well I'll get out of your hair
Outside of the specific user who was banned I wanted to address meta communities.
The previous attempts at a meta community or even a ban appeal pinned post have caused more drama in each new post as new discussions of the mod actions occur…
Often times restarting contentious discussion where folks are talking past each other and assuming bad faith.
We are available on matrix for people who wish to discuss their ban but ultimately it is very easy to make a hexbear account and as a result very easy to get banned.
This core aspect of site administration has been here since the start and if it wasn’t for the handful of spammers I deny each day I would remove the application entirely.
I’m open to a hexbear user discussion on a meta community but a local user in good standing must apply to be a moderator if a meta community is to be made.
We have been using !feedback@hexbear.net and !hexbear@hexbear.net as meta communities in addition to the Matrix space mentioned in the site sidebar for the past year or so.
Big agree on this post
A lot of westerners fundamentally misunderstand the concept of ethnicity and boil everything down to race. The OP above you's description of Jews as just white WASPs and Hasidic Jews on a narrow spectrum is pretty fundamentally wrong.
White or white passing Ashkenazim are usually front and center to what the average western perception is of Jews but, there's Sephardic, Mizrahi, Beta Israel, Indian Jews, Yemenite Jews, Chinese Jews, the list goes on. And lots that your average westerner would definitely not consider a white WASP. I am a Black Ashkenazi Jew.
Israel doesn't represent all Jews and yeah, Jews are still oppressed throughout the world. Real antisemitism, not whatever bullshit the ADL cries about when someone even mildly and rightfully criticizes Israel.
The whiteness that some Jews are granted is conditional, and right now Zionist Jews are a useful prop for the USA but I guarantee they will be dropped as soon as it is convenient to the fascist projects. Fascists still shoot up synagogues and they don't give a shit about how any of us feel about Israel.
Meanwhile Westerners are just spouting the same Protocols shit they've been doing for centuries, but now Westerners feel like they can say it louder than before because of what Israel is doing to Palestinians.
Agree with you here on giving Palestinians latitude because yeah, they are actively being genocided.
At the end of the day, I do feel it is important for those of us who are diasporic Jews who oppose the genocide to be loud about it - it is Israel's goal to make people think like the original banned poster, so that they can further their settler project by getting Jews to leave and move to Israel. I will say that shit with my whole chest until I die, free Palestine and fuck Israel, they do not get to decide and speak for the rest of us.
Idk where im going with this post, I'm just rambling at this point but shit like the banned user's OP just pisses me off, its so uninformed, and at the same time its definitely not anywhere as bad as what Palestinians are suffering through - we can focus on dismantling, organizing against, and denouncing the genocide without resorting to antisemitic talking points because there is a life or death task at hand