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.
i would like the anti-semitic mods to be removed from the site and the emoji added. as a jewish person it’s very distressing to see hexbear allows their admins to cater to zionists by associating all jews with israel. it’s honestly sickening. probably won’t be on the site for a while. fucksake.
i’ve held back from ever voicing my opinion because of the rabidness of the zionist antisemites. sincerely. i dont want to deal with internet drama but some admins are rabid about defending zionists over a few fucking pixels. makes me sick.
it’s not my flag and it’s NOT my symbol.
death to the idf. death to israel
free palestine
edit: just wanted to edit saying i got not issue with ysf i hope it wasn’t interpreted that way. also i guess this i was a colder take than i expected which was pleasant to see thank you everyone for being correct
I support this entirely as someone who got punished for voicing the opinion that all settlers should be kicked out of the land they stole so it can be returned to its rightful owners. Death to pissrael and all its western puppetmasters.