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 thought it was clear that we think it was a mistake, and that the self-crit expressed in the post body was giving context to why the mistake was made. Yes the emoji could have been made 4 years ago, but was not. It was a mistake and one that we regret. That being said there was never a ban on burning flag of isntreal posting in fact almost every news mega has those images in comments, the sticking point was having the person who in charge of the emojis personally make and implement it.
That part is clear.
Should have, please read my first reply again.
Personally, I am not trying to get anyone to do self-crit or explain their positions or whatever. I just took issue with a specific part of your statement and tried to explain why. And like I said, I hope my comments don’t come across as hostile, comrade.