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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 (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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