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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 3 days ago

From what I can tell I think they distinguish between communists and tankies, they call someone a tankie if they're perceived to be supportive of a regime that the wider community believes to be authoritarian.

They dislike authoritarianism and believe those that support it in the pursuit of communism are ignorant of or are dismissive of any oppression and mistreatment of the population of those countries, whether true or not in reality is not the issue as in their worldview it is true, which is where their animosity comes from.