Just for the record and not one way or the other on the substance of this entire thread:
I really respect how you’ve kept your cool up and down this thread and even retained a sense of humor that is not simultaneously dismissive of people’s concerns. I obviously don’t get to see what happens behind the scenes at this site but your attitude I think is a testament to what ultimately makes this place work even as we struggle through hard stuff.
It might be time for another struggle session about the Star of David and the sensitivity with treating it the same way we treat other nationalist symbols. The star was not a religious symbol in Judaism and really wasn’t very prominent in Jewish culture until the 19th century. The rise of its use coincided directly with the rise of the concept of Jewish ethno-nationilsm aka Zionism.
Yet another example of Zionism as the new antisemitism. Calling this Kristallnacht is straight-up holocaust denial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit
Sorry for the natopedia link but it is a reference to an actual US/NATO environmental atrocity of throwing all refuse into pits and burning them. Unlike “burn ward” where you heal people of their burns, the burn pit is a place where you actually burn what you want to get rid of but the burning of such refuse is also poisoning the one who burns it. So it also acknowledges the latent toxicity that I think forms part of the reason of this current proposal.
What an amazing name
No you aren’t
** thinks about it a little harder **
Oh wait. Yes you are.
c/the_burn_ward
I'm making a second appeal for c/the_burn_pit
The_burn_pit
They work in ivory towers. Where they pull the strings from.
Oh shit. Got to this comment too late. Hope you made it through comrade.
starts slow clap
Unfortunately, I'm linking to NATOpedia for the second time today (
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But as for the beginning of its prevalence: