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.
Whatever your opinion is Nakoichi, no Zionist talking points were brought up.
I’ve elaborated my position on this in other comments in clear way so if you have anything to say about the content of my argument you can comment on them there. If you don’t want to call it zionist then call it racist. It’s still unacceptable to imply that someone is antisemitic for passionately hating the flag that represents the murder and genocide on arabs.
I went through your comments. I saw no quotes. You all can disagree on an emoji without Zionist jacketing of each other. I’ve seen you on Hexbear long enough to sincerely believe that you’re not a Nazi or Zionist or whatever, even if we happen to share a different position on what I feel isn’t a serious issue (the damn emoji).