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Can we even make fun of this when Hexbear has the same policy in regards to flag-burning emojis?
Really puts how pathetic that policy is in sharp relief now that the fascists are adopting the same policy. I think it's just absurd given they're committing a genocide.
I feel like it's okay to add it back, I don't even know what the exact struggle session was to begin with, but anyone who argues for that position now should be banned.
There wasn't really a struggle session over it, just a "yeah let's not give away easy ammunition to call us antisemites" in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7th. Nobody really thought it was antisemitism to burn the Israeli flag but that anything involving the star of david is incredibly easy propaganda for zionists to claim antisemitism regardless of the reality.
The star of david and the swastika are both religious symbols.
To enforce this rule means that they should also enforce a rule against burning the nazi flag.
Otherwise it's just jewish exceptionalism.
oh it was and continued to be a constant struggle session. Dozens of comments have been removed for it, users banned and threads locked
(But looking down)
There was absolutely a struggle session and users got banned when it went down. It's just so long that a lot of people forget it happened. And the argument against having the emoji wasn't just that it could be antisemtic, it was also that it made some users uncomfortable. It's also how we got rid of the :saudicool: emoji when someone rightly pointed out what that Arabic text on the KSA flag is.
Using indigenous Hawaiian Israel Kamakawiwoʻole to represent the occupation is one of the grossest fucking things on this site and whoever signed off on that change should fucking apologize.
Burning a genocidal flag emoji is too far but disrespecting an indigenous activist is fair game
Never change, whites of hexbear
It's been called out multiple times but still stands. It pisses me off a lot. It also changes the meaning of that emoji compared to all of the other "cool" emojis.