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

submitted 2 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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[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

To add to the excellent points here: they are incredibly propagandised and treat-brained. While they recognise the social evils of fascism and some of the micro oppressions of capitalism, any position or person that asks them to admit that current systems are fundamentally, structurally broken (or worse, to do something about it) provokes a wave of anxiety about losing what they know and guilt about benefiting from the system/not coming across as leftist as they wish to appear. “Tankie” is simply a deflection, a manifestation of their avoidant behaviour so that they don’t have to feel those difficult, shameful, but ultimately growth-provoking feelings.

Also, by co-opting a term from leftist infighting, they can signal that they consider themselves lefties, without needing to actually engage in any of the critical thought required.