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[DISCUSSION] :israel-cool: Referendum (hexbear.net)
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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.

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[-] Beetle@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

That argument is so distressing to encounter especially on this site.

I think a lot of people here have been in the crosshairs for resisting this genocide and the generations of other horrible crimes done to the Palestinian people. I’ve been attacked with so many awful zionist talking points from strangers and people I considered family or friends. For some reason it just hits me so hard to see these same talking points being used on this site in such an aggressive way.

At this point there is no defence for such statements and in my view that argument is akin to a defence of the crimes done to the Palestinians and all the other people that have been victimised by this horrible entity. I don’t care about intention, I care about the fact that this argument is exactly the same as and thus legitimises those arguments that are used to criminalise the few morally right people who are actively resisting these indescribable crimes against humanity.

Fuck these people from the bottom of my irreparably broken heart.

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