It’s the good old Red Scare but using the word “tankie” instead of “commie” and the people doing it now are just as devoid of ethics and hard right as the Macarthists were.
No, it’s not. Tankies are their own thing, they’re authoritarian communists. The fact you think they’re regular communists has you spreading misinformation sympathetic to their cause.
I’m as socialist as they come and I will forever say fuck tankies.
Let me explain the metaphor I used since, surprisingly, you seem to have missed it by a mile:
Most of the people the libs nowadays call “tankies” are as communist or even just socialist as most of the people the Macartists called “commie” back in the time of the Red Scare (meaning, most are neither: those terms were and are used by libs/Macartists mostly for people who are just left-of-center)
Who are you talking about? Libs mostly don’t even know what tankies are, they aren’t generally going around using the term as an epithet. I think there’s more LaRouchites than tankies in the US, it’s an obscure and politically irrelevant tiny little slice of the population that 99% of people have no idea about. The only reason anyone talks about them on Lemmy is because there’s a disproportionate amount here and a number of them like to make a nuisance of themselves. The people who dislike tankies are almost exclusively actual communists and Marxists and socialists and anarchists, and generally people of the left who are in any way knowledgeable about history or politics. No else even gives a shit about them.
And during the Macartist times authoritarian lefties called themselves “communist”.
The point being that back them with “communist” and “commie” as now with “tankies”, other people who are not authoritarian lefties are also being labelled by their politicial adversaries with their nickname for authoritarian lefties.
I’m shocked I’ve had to explain the same thing thrice now.
“I’m as socialist as they come, that’s why I reject all previous forms of socialism: because I believe myself to be more intelligent, literate in politics and economics, compassionate, and superior to those pesky socialists that dedicated their entire lives to socialism in the previous century”.
It’s the good old Red Scare but using the word “tankie” instead of “commie” and the people doing it now are just as devoid of ethics and hard right as the Macarthists were.
No, it’s not. Tankies are their own thing, they’re authoritarian communists. The fact you think they’re regular communists has you spreading misinformation sympathetic to their cause.
I’m as socialist as they come and I will forever say fuck tankies.
Let me explain the metaphor I used since, surprisingly, you seem to have missed it by a mile:
Who are you talking about? Libs mostly don’t even know what tankies are, they aren’t generally going around using the term as an epithet. I think there’s more LaRouchites than tankies in the US, it’s an obscure and politically irrelevant tiny little slice of the population that 99% of people have no idea about. The only reason anyone talks about them on Lemmy is because there’s a disproportionate amount here and a number of them like to make a nuisance of themselves. The people who dislike tankies are almost exclusively actual communists and Marxists and socialists and anarchists, and generally people of the left who are in any way knowledgeable about history or politics. No else even gives a shit about them.
The ones here do. I’m not writting for people not here.
Liberals are the only ones doing that.
Except most of the authoritarian tankies self-label as communists. So your analogy was not terribly apt.
And during the Macartist times authoritarian lefties called themselves “communist”.
The point being that back them with “communist” and “commie” as now with “tankies”, other people who are not authoritarian lefties are also being labelled by their politicial adversaries with their nickname for authoritarian lefties.
I’m shocked I’ve had to explain the same thing thrice now.
Fascists who like to cosplay as communists are still fascists.
That’s why it should mean, but is frequently applied to anyone unapologetically anti-capitalist.
“I’m as socialist as they come, that’s why I reject all previous forms of socialism: because I believe myself to be more intelligent, literate in politics and economics, compassionate, and superior to those pesky socialists that dedicated their entire lives to socialism in the previous century”.
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By insulting me you’re literally as violent and aggressive as the right, I won’t stand by your despotic attitudes and authoritarian tendencies!!!