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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.

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

use the real flag but change the name of the emoji to isntrael-cool or something to not mess with past use of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's emoji, ban the liberal zionists from this site and the mod that got away with telling zposter to kill themself, unban zposter, and take liberal zionism from our mods and users more seriously going forward

also mods apologize to our Arab users for allowing the racism toward them under the excuse of caring about antisemitism

Edit: that mod didnt tell a user to kill themself, they told them to "touch dirt six feet beneath grass", sorry for paraphrasing inaccurately, it makes more sense to say they told someone to die

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

the mod that got away with telling zposter to kill themself

What the fuck I missed that

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Removed Comment Lmfao putting him alongside them. Please fucking touch grass. Actually touch dirt six feet beneath grass. by Nakoichi [they/them] reason: chill

I don't know if I can link specific mod log entries but you can find it here if you scroll a bit. https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment&userId=3714

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

Sounds like nakoichi needs to do their own self crit post

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I like how this gets a "chill" while Z poster is told to fuck off and go outside like we know them personally. tenna-cabbage

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Very cool and not at all abusive and insulting, especially when we're all conscious about doxxing and are averse to talking about what we actually do IRL and therefore can't meaningfully defend ourselves

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The secret ingredient is racism. Arab users are clearly being held to a double standard

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do we need a separate thread for the mod self criticism needed to restore faith for some of the shit done recently? I vote for one for sure. Trying to lightly defend the anti-zionist side yesterday was cause for derision and smearing from some mods, and today we decide that those derided were entirely correct. An acknowledgement is needed

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really don't want any more people to get banned, but this hasbara has to end now detective or this site is going to fucking implode. lt-kitsuragi