• oatscoop@midwest.social
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        2 years ago

        It doesn’t help that the tankies are trying to push the idea that “Tankie is a slur against all communists/leftists!” The word “tankie” was invented by communists as an insult against those specific “communists” the cheer on brutal oppression of civilians – particularly when those civilians are communists themselves.

        The irony is tankies hate the “wrong kind of leftist” just as much as their other ideological enemies.

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          2 years ago

          I’ve known many tankies (myself included) and I’ve never met a single one that thought it was a slur, but ok. Those civilians were fascists uprising BTW.