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users: we need a purge
admins: purging the users calling out zionism
Banning Zposter lemmygrad account in such a way that we cant even view the mod logs for what they posted is incredibly suspicious and disingenuous.
Zposter had a very inflammatory mode of communication so I'm not going to blanket defend them as its possible they said some wild things. But this specific circumstances of the past 10 days? The admins and mods are moving in an incredibly suspicious and socially violent way that is clear to see.
I don't expect anything to change here. Settler Yankees run the platform then the problem goes to the core. I'm not too bothered though. Because Allah swt is sufficient
If any of the pro-resistance pro-Z newshead comrades want to join a tg group chat where we can talk news (not yankeebear drama) then shoot me a dm. I'll try to set something up this week insha'allah.
Edit: updated for neutral pronouns as I dont know Zposter pronouns.
I think the deleted thing that pissed them off was that they said "Redwizard wants to disable IP scrapping for a few months then ban everyone with the same IP then enable IP scrapping again" they provided an image of a leaked chat of redwizard saying that.
The old (Russian) "misinformation" 🫠
Zposter was banned for malciously spreading the idea that we use AI mod tools and that we can turn of IP anonymization. The comments were spammed and thus i used the remove content action. People raising the concerns in good faith have been left up, like afters' comments.
Intentionally lying to continue this drama is wrecker behavior, just as zposter used an alt to pretend to be another user to engage with this post and to DM others with the intent of furthering the struggle session
I see. thank you for explaining. I still feel uneasy about the way everything has played out.
Also I stand by what I posted earlier about about the zionist sensitivity to the antisemitism discourse.
Its incredibly unfortunate that the conversation seemingly always gets reduced to being about the actions of one particular individual or a particular mod.
you ever see a meme online about "funny language miscommunication" or whatever and you look at the meme and you can 100% tell it was written by a white native english speaker
The problem of zionism on this platform is not an emoji or a few mods or users. It is systemic and pervasive.
My opinion is that a main component is the sensitivity to "anti-semitism" which is fundamentally zionist.
Jews are not structurally oppressed anywhere on earth on the basis of their religion.
There is no such thing as a "Jewish ethnicity" a "Jewish people" and especially a "Jewish nation". Such a narrative is fundamentally Zionist.
The Star of David is a symbol of Jewish Supremacy and colonial extermination today.
Prioritizing the opinions of Jews in regards to Zionism is no different from prioritizing white people in regards to racism.
"Antizionist Jewish Organizations" in almost all cases historically and presently serve a specific function of hijacking pro-resistance solidarity in favour of toothless "anti-racist" campaigns and liberal Zionism.
Jewish exceptionalism in regards to the European holocaust of the 20th century is also fundamentally Zionist. The vast majority of people today are descendents of survivors of imperial European (or imperial Japanese) imposed holocausts over the past 500 years. The actions during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, for instance, were far more heinous quantitatively and quantitatively than the German concentration camps. (Note: this is not to make an "oppression olympics" but to point out the clear role philosemitism in manufacturing of historical memory in the collective consciousness.)
Racist clowns will sit here and accuse Muslims, Africans, Arabs, and others of "antisemitism" and then turn around and say that AIPAC and Netanyahu control the US government. Make it make sense? (Note: the problem with this analysis is not the alleged anti-semitism but the whitewashing of the US and ensuing defeatism and political paralysis.)
The issue of "anti-semitism" among the anti-imperialist and pro-resistance camp is actually that it hides the materialist forces that are actually driving global extermination and domination campaigns. Accusing people who are dying under the boot of US-led imperialism of being "Jew Haters" is absolutely ridiculous. Are some people misdirected? Maybe. Antisemitic? No.
never forget that they banned users for supporting Hamas in the first few months
did they? my goodness, i was here on october 7 and i don't think i ever noticed. supporting hamas should have been a baseline.
I admit I actually don't remember, a lot has happened over the past two years and it's easy for things like this to get swept under the rug
they're going to sweep this under the rug too, the is another
to shut us up
Seems like a good reason to address the problems now rather than waiting up to two months for things to "cool off"
when the two months pass and it cooled off they're going to say "well that was 2 months ago why are you still mad about it?"
People already calling it "relitigation" while simultaneously trying to rugsweep so yeah
https://hexbear.net/comment/4384399 some correlating commentary from the time about people getting banned for hamas support
Vauge posting, I asked zed then via DM for names and he could not provide them. I will happily unban anyone that was banned for supporting hamas
Nothing to add beyond I support this message. When topics of anti semitism come up here on hexbear, the air around it doesn't sit right with me. I've been self censoring with fear of being banned but that censoring only upholds isntreal and zionism. Antisemitism is a uniquely European sin and we need to understand it like racism, which is systematic. And right now, systematic forces are to busy drumming up Anti Arab sentiment
Was sent logs of the mod chat by a whistleblower, read what was being said about the struggle sessions, completely and utterly delusional, egotistical, and entirely missing the point, plus direct accusations of me in particular being a wrecker + not to mention misgendering. I’m assuming a couple other users were also sent the html logs, I just don’t have the energy or desire to continue operating on this website after what i read. Basically every concern was completely ignored, subverted, or created baseless accusations. And the mod in particular who was asked to step down by many users is still a mod under another account and was told by admins they did nothing wrong. Thanks to the few cool users on this website but yea the administration is just childish and completely disconnected from its user base, unwilling to face legitimate criticism, so I will not be returning here anymore and I urge others who would like any sort of real positive change to do the same. Maybe someone will create another community and I would be happy to join then, but for now goodbye. This will probably end up getting purged anyways
I didn't think I could get more disappointed than I already was.
feels weird one of them is a mod of this comm and a site admin who can see what posts everyone likes
anyway, if i get banned for this comment you know why
mod of this comm
Especially with a take like that lmao. Holy shit what is that? "Don't dox yourself but also dox yourself by posting your city and org so I can have my racist takes validated on a crossword puzzle duck and bean forum" is a certainly an opinion.
I think they were being flippant and trying to dismiss complaints about not having the emoji by saying the people complaining couldnt possibly be people who are active in Palestinian resistance irl
The terminally online on terminally online violence from the people who have time to mod this site is so goddamn annoying
what the fuck is red wizard doing there
Also I can provide the image they want if I look through my gallery, but not burning we didn't have a flag we had a bit of the road with chalk of israel with us stepping on it.
The mods aren't alright
copbear
Im gonna log off for real but one last lol at a thread trying to address the zionism on here getting made and locked while I was sleeping
What I like about China and what liberals hate about it is the same, all those European powers with centuries of genocide slavery and colonialism, overtaken by a global south country. They sank our ships but lost the race.
Hate how relatable this is.
Reminded of the time my cat went missing.
Parent: how are things
Me: still bad, my cat is still missing.
Parent. Sorry, it's been a week. Give up