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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

"Tankie" isn't a political ideology, it's a McCarthyite strawman with ready-made characteristics designed to make it so that you don't have to respond to the points communists make. The origin of the term being in putting down the 1956 CIA supported and MI6 armed fascist counter-revolution in Hungary where the fascists let Nazis out of prison to lynch Jews and communists doesn't make any difference on today's usage.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The current usage is as an anticommunist pejorative and McCarthyite strawman.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's just what you want it to mean so you can distance yourselves from the term entirely.

    Wikipedia has a pretty clear cut definition, and it's the one the majority of people (who aren't one themselves anyways) use

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago

    I gave a clear-cut and more useful definition that actively reflects reality. There are no groups liberals would consider "non-authoritarian" and communist that have any relevance. It's in practice a pejorative for communists, full-stop.

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