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What's your definition of tankie? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.

I've always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.

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[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tankies I define as Authoritarian state apologists, who support authoritarian states without any critical examination of that belief.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Pretty much this. I see a lot of arguments that their support of russia is "critical support" but there's no criticism of it in their discussions. Being against the western imperialism, it seems, automatically grants a country a title of "lesser evil" and everything it does gets conveniently glossed over.

That said, I can't in good faith assert that everyone or even majority of the users on so-called "tankie triad" instances are tankies. It's more that the tankies have a loud presence there that isn't moderated. Most of the people from hexbear and .ml I've interacted with have been polite and rational in explaining their worldview.