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.
Wel I know personally of at least 2 that were legit ZPoster, used for site evasion, because ZP admitted it lol
Maybe I’m not into online forum admin enough, but I just don’t see the big problem if the original ban was unfounded anyways. For this topic, I think it was justified to make a new account and plead the case further. I can imagine it’s sometime bad though, but I think we should just take seriously each argument/position/racist take for what it is and treat it as a new individual account. That holds the risk of someone making harmful statements and getting caught too slowly, but that’s not what ZP does. ZP isn’t going around throwing slurs at people and avoiding the ban to do so (as far as I know. Correct me if I’m wrong and I’ll correct that)
Just seems like 2 very different kinds of bans between being grating and throwing slurs around. For one van evasion is acceptable and the other it’s not.