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[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Yo I kinda hate the use of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole as a substitute icon for the apartheid state of Israel, given that israel-cool used his music to identify the US State of Hawaii as an apartheid state against the native Hawaiian population.

Izzy K was a very cool figure, if u are not familiar with his work u should give him a listen!

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

I thought the whole joke was that the emoji is called israel-cool and he was a cool guy called Israel.

It's not a good fit for the apartheid ethnostate, though.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Yes, the point is that we don't want an actual :israel-cool: emote because we dont want an emote of the star of david on fire, even if it's only on their shitty flag. but we want an :israel-cool: emote to use in situations like these, so we've got an emote of the only cool israel as a stand-in

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

idf-cool

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

idf-cool is here now so we don't need israel-cool as a stand in anymore

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