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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies?
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They want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to be seen as revolutionary leftists fighting the good fight, but they also want to maintain imperialism and their western chauvinist worldview. "Tankies" undermine their conception of themselves as good people by confronting them with the part of themselves that still wants to believe they're the master race.
Western liberals like to put on a generic “anti-power” coat and don’t concern themselves with the actual business of running a country. Some dead slave owner said exercising power is inherently evil therefore China bad