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

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They're not communists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Thats dangerously close to the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

"No true Scotsman" is about redefining a term to suit the argument, not that purity tests or gatekeeping are inherently illegitimate.

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