Hexbear mods and US judges so rarely agree
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Gonna mark this day in my calendar
Can we even make fun of this when Hexbear has the same policy in regards to flag-burning emojis?
Really puts how pathetic that policy is in sharp relief now that the fascists are adopting the same policy. I think it's just absurd given they're committing a genocide.
I feel like it's okay to add it back, I don't even know what the exact struggle session was to begin with, but anyone who argues for that position now should be banned.
There wasn't really a struggle session over it, just a "yeah let's not give away easy ammunition to call us antisemites" in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7th. Nobody really thought it was antisemitism to burn the Israeli flag but that anything involving the star of david is incredibly easy propaganda for zionists to claim antisemitism regardless of the reality.
The star of david and the swastika are both religious symbols.
To enforce this rule means that they should also enforce a rule against burning the nazi flag.
Otherwise it's just jewish exceptionalism.
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oh it was and continued to be a constant struggle session. Dozens of comments have been removed for it, users banned and threads locked
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Using indigenous Hawaiian Israel Kamakawiwoʻole to represent the occupation is one of the grossest fucking things on this site and whoever signed off on that change should fucking apologize.
Burning a genocidal flag emoji is too far but disrespecting an indigenous activist is fair game
Never change, whites of hexbear
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hexbear-cool when since we cant get real israel-cool?
The site’s most monumental moment of cowardice emulated in law. To tap dance around the simple issue of depicting the burning of a fascist state’s flag shows a blind spot in the mod team
I think the people here in the West are in for a rude awakening when they move pass the Anglosphere and realize that non-Westerners without the legacy of the Holocaust are beginning to treat the star of David as a hate symbol in the same exact way Westerners treat the swastika as a hate symbol. And saying that it's a religious symbol means nothing since religions aren't inherently peaceful social institutions. If anything, given the Reddit atheist understanding of religion on Hexbear dot net, isn't something being a religious symbol a bad thing? There are plenty of Indigenous people who see the Christian cross as a hate symbol, and given how much they have suffered at the hands of Christians since 1492, who can blame them?
The Reddit atheists on Hexbear dot net want a world without religion, and last time I checked, Judaism is a religion as well. A world without religion is a world where Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews don't exist because no one practices Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism anymore. Treating Jews as a monolithic ethnicity instead of a religion with multiple ethnicities that traditionally practiced that religion (Ashkenazim, Sephardim) on of top of unaffiliated individuals and families converts from varying ethnicities is a Zionist talking point. It's like saying Armenians, Ethiopians, and Palestinians are one ethnicity because those populations are one of the oldest Christian populations.
The swastika being a religious symbol for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism didn't save the swastika, and I don't think it will save the star of David either.
I agree. My partner stopped wearing her star of david necklace. It took about a year post-oct 7th, but the decision was made after someone made a comment saying she was "so brave to wear that at a time like this". She decided to take it off due to the only comment she's ever received on that necklace implied that she was supportive of "israel".
My Palestinian parents also have a strong association of the star of david to israel, and how could they not? The flag is waved everywhere there, if someone beats you while waving the flag, burns your land and kills your livestock, I think it's fair to associate the symbol on that flag as a hate symbol. In their minds, the star of david is a symbol of ethnic supremacy.
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Of course antisemites are dipshits and wrong but I can understand where they get off thinking that israel owns the usa, and not vice-versa. In a perverse way, the zionist project of israel's mere existence gives more than enough ammo to bigots to attack it forever in a lot of ways. This is one of them. They're going to say that jews run the usa because of shit like this, which bleeds into hatred, which in turn fuels the drive for more jews to flee to israel and keep the apartheid going.
You can do anything anywhere, what is god going to stop me? 
okay but what if I carefully cut the star of David out of the flag then burn the rest
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so many closet zionists who cherish the occupier's flag on hexbear, very sad
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