After the recent struggle session which resulted in
CW: It’s pretty self indulgent considering the gravity of the actual situation.
I am left disquieted due to various people who represented zionists positions directly or held space for these. Particularly (but not only) those who are admins and mods. People who think the above image is a “holocaust flag”. And otherwise seem to have conjured a fictious form of anti semitism, just for deploying here.
Well OK maybe it is allowed to give people a week or a month to mull things over and reconsider their positions. But do we come back to it? Or should I just seethe with resentment, hold a grudge, and snipe about other things going forward?
On the other hand, the majority & plurality were on the correct side of things. So that’s good. I just… Idk I don’t expect hegemony but this is literally such a simple issue. I don’t know how anyone who feels different could feel comfortable on this site. it’s like learning mods/admins are triggered by a guillotine.
In some ways it could be “the fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so low”. (The stakes = emojis)
But on the other hand, the stakes are so huge and this is just the scale of fighting that’s near at hand.
Nobody ever accused me of being perfect and well behaved so maybe I’m just throwing stones from a glass house. I explicitly must consent to whatever critique in that regard.
I would like to suggest that on the new user signup page the question be changed to read
What are your views on GSM / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation,
Although I have no idea what sort of answers people make to these. So maybe it’s stupid.
Fucking shit. People are fucking being fucking murdered right at this fucking moment.
The first person who called it a “holocaust emoji” was not a mod, but a mod/admin did pick it up and used it.
So you’re just wrong here.
It’s no more “performative” than you pretending that you don’t care and are above it all
No source given.As I said in a previous comment, I did a good faith search for this and found nothing.This is admin Lyudmila calling it a “holocaust emoji”:
(https://hexbear.net/comment/6421651)
To be fair, she did later apologize for it. But she did do it.
I think everyone was getting a little too heated, Lyudmila included.
“I’m about to do a heated admin move”
shits out a bunch of Hasbara talking points
When I get heated I don’t “accidentally” start repeating genocide apologia and if I did I would expect to be banned or at the very least not still be in a position of authority afterwards.
you don’t understand, it was just a heated poster moment!
Whatever dude, I’m done with the wrecker ass thread.
Wrecker = when people rightfully disagree with and prove you wrong
We’re not supposed to care about fascism creeping into our little digital oasis that we visit in between taking care of our communities and trying not to get crushed by the disaster dystopia, I guess
Careful, they might accuse us of being the same person on alts!
“Could I be wrong? Well, yes, objectively, but more importantly everyone against me is wrong somehow!”
Any community or movement that is “wrecked” by calling out genocide apologia shouldn’t fucking exist.
Who are the “wreckers”? The zionist apologists or the anti-zionists?
The actual wreckers are the ones trying to sow division on the site and encourage people to form cliques and splits on the site, encouraging infighting. I’m not naming any names here (because I honestly don’t think anyone here is genuinely doing that in bad faith) but this is and will continue to be a topic that wreckers will bring up to sow division and cause issues for quite a while I think.
https://hexbear.net/comment/6421651
sorry I think I grabbed the wrong link the first time
My bad. I edited my comment.
all good, it’s easy to miss
I stand corrected, I guess a single mod did use it a single time.
What’s important is that you can still feel smug about it despite being completely wrong.
Moderates the third largest com, is a site admin, and specifically the site admin who took on the PR role 9 months ago https://hexbear.net/comment/5620028
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And doubled down. But not wanting genocide apologists to hold positions of authority in our community is apparently “wrecker shit”.
Yes, that one single mod. That one person. You didn’t ask for a group of mods.
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My bad. I searched for “Holocaust flag” from a previous comment.