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.

  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I mean, to a point. Genuine bigotry has existed forever, and still exists today. If you think the only reason people in power go after minorities is some sort of tactical decision, you give them way too much credit. Most of these people hate people who differ from them in one way, or another, and want to force their world view on everyone. That is where the thought behind their movements ends. But, this is rarely how I see it framed from the “only class war” people. The vast majority of the time I see this argument brought up, it is people telling people supporting minority groups that this is fake and they are are stupid.