The tankie try-not-to-be-a-raging-class-reductionist-queerphobe challenge: impossible.

I always got the sense when talking to class reductionist tankies that they were simply thinly veiling their bigotry and the “no war but class war” was just a way they could try to appeal to others while redirecting away from their own abhorrent beliefs. Just another example that tankies aren’t really that different from MAGAts.

They want to bring together the working class of the left and the right but only on the social terms of the right since they know they can’t challenge their bigotry and still win their votes. So instead they want us to shut up about our struggle for rights and only mention what they deem the “correct” struggle.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Trans people make a GREAT enemy.

    There’s not a lot of them, so the average asshole probably doesn’t know any, which makes it easy to dehumanize them.

    They are inherently trying to “look different”, which means they’re hiding amongst all the good and honest people. Your neighbor could be a trans person!

    Most of them are young, and as a result of shitty policies, have mental health problems. So they’re not individually scary. It’s always nice to have a weak enemy.

    But they’re all in it together, so they must be destroyed for being too strong!

    Feel free to replace “trans person” with the enemy du jour. Jews, communists, gay people, pick your flavour of hate.