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.
My biggest mistake was letting them continue to get to me and not simply advocating to ban them for evading prior bans for hostile behavior. I have already acknowledged my comment was in bad taste but it was absolutely not “encouraging suicide” it was an act of extreme frustration with a person that just keeps coming back and stirring shit up deliberately.
I even told the admins to go ahead and remove me as mod if that is what people actually want. What I will not abide are these bad faith accusations of me being a zionist or genocide supporter. I will not however concede to this bullshit reading of events and surrendering to one of the most toxic posters on this site.