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 a joke about australia being really hot or something and didn’t question it
it’s a joke about the huge fires that were around in australia a while back
They’re pretty much yearly.
The big big ones are every few years at this point, and with the climate apocalypse progressing they’re going to be worse.
I take it as a joke about bushfires which is… Questionable? Feels mean spirited anyway.
Honestly it’s always bothered me, too.
Hadn’t known that until now but I agree that laughing at Indigenous lands being burned because they are occupied by a colonial force we hate is much more in bad taste than the topic at hand
Yeah I think I’ve said something about it before but never pushed it because it doesn’t really matter much, but I dont think its okay and would rather it be a uniform size.
i tend to assume these sorts of things are gallows humor, not mean-spirited
but if it’s gotta go then nbd
Gallows humour is for the people in the gallows though. When theres a big fire and the smoke blankets cities and I get to not be able to breathe for a while I don’t really want to joke about it like that. And I’m not even in direct danger. I doubt the people fleeing their homes or trying to save wildlife are joking about it much