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On lemmy Tankies and the miss treatment of Muslims (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everyone, there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie and the ability for the lemmy community to criticize the Chinese government.

I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.

Ask anyone to say the following

I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.

The admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml will not say this. Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.

Thats all and happy posting!

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The tank has nothing to do with Tiananmen, it's a reference to the Hungarian revolution and Prague uprising of the late 50s and 60s.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've never heard that. Is the tank thing even related to tanks, the combat vehicle? Do you have a link where I can learn more?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

TIL

The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".