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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies?
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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.