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 don’t know who you brought it up to, honestly there is a consistent churn and addition of mods and admins. I don’t think we have made a habit of announcing who is on or not on the admin team due to the specific and actionable death threats made to us as a result of doxxing.
It was in the news comm to the thousand_snakes fellow, who hemmed and hawed and said I was seeing things and then did nothing. I received no further response. It’s been linked in the em_poc thread.
Thank you for mentioning that I went and read that thread as well as the others on this topic, I’ve forwarded this to the mod chat to discuss. Reading the comments between your alt and Nakoichi that they misread your comment thinking you were placing BE on the same level as those other people and responded with the removed comment telling you to touch grass 6 ft under. That violates the CoC, especially holding moderators to a higher standard. We will be discussing this and taking action