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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.

lea-bounce

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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

slapping a star of david onto some firewood and then calling the ADL to report my neighbor for antisemitism when they burn it

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[–] graymess@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

Let the motherfucker burn.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

Commenting itt to vote in favor of not only having a burning pissrael flag emote but having it formalized via a sitewide vote. You've lost the right to decide from above unfortunately. I support the unbanning of the user zposter too.

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

as a pattern-seeking animal, i support the standard cool flag template

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

Another vote for either the full Zionist flag emoji, or the red triangle edit if we decide against full emoji—I don't mind either way.

Regardless, I support the posting liberation of Z.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Allow the emoji, unban Z, then immediately ban them again for their extended history of being a reactionary piece of shit.

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

I don't care about the flag, and I don't know the circumstances of this ban but Z poster was blocked on my end some time ago for not just painting all Kurds as traitors because of the failures of the YPG but arguing it was right to refer to all Kurds this way.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

I vote real flag

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

@liberal@hexbear.net @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net which one of you was this? Can you please explain to me whats wrong with calling someone who was being a smartass and supporting zionist arguments a "dumb fucking white monkey"? Is there anything wrong with being hostile to users who *leave comments that functionally support fascism?

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Crakkkers gonna crakkker ig. Zionist talking points treated less seriously than calling a smug white what they are.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Damn right, just realized that while they removed my comment, the dozens of downright antisemetic fascist "the holocaust caused the nakba"/"pissrael == all jews" hasbara talking points that professor_owl shat out earlier are still up. What a fucking joke.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

My opinion is im ok either way honestly

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