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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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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Since there is near universal approval of having a true Zionist entity flag burning emote, this thread is now about whether ZPoster should be banned or not.

I vote for them being unbanned because they already have a million alts ready on standby anyways, and they're not going anywhere until Nakoichi is gone.

It's funny how the rest of Hexbear always comes around to their point of view eventually even when most people see them as a crank. It happened with the SMO and it's happening with emote.

[–] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Anyone who wants Z_poster to stay banned doesn't use the news mega lol. You can disagree with Z (I often do), but Z always has actually interesting and insightful things to say from a different perspective. Even if you never agree with Z, you're always challenged to think your own viewpoint through.

Edit: I think there are some people who demand everyone agree with a "hexbear line" or else get banned, and are opposed to letting people that see things differently stay and contribute/hash it out. It's often quite juvenile.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I agree with this. There are also many, many other users who are just as if not more hostile than Z and they don't get banned even though they may directly attack other users.

[–] teledildonics@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

some of those other users are even moderators!

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

yeah, it sucks that the admin/mod/user struggle over cliqueishness hasn't really been addressed at all.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

The thin mod line is strong

[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Well it has. By saying it wasn’t a thing

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

I think we need some form of c/userunion back to tackle this. Maybe some mechanism to, like, "declassify" past mod discussions for transparency? After some time ofc, to avoid wreckers/other bad actors exploiting having knowledge of mod comms.

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