Are tankies really that big of a problem? No one worth their weight (or not chronically online) actually uncritically worships former socialist projects, the whole point is to study and preserve the nuance of what occured in former socialist projects for future socialism. Tankie is such a chronically online term that kills any discussion of former socialism whenever I see it in service of avoiding it altogether. 196 having it in its community banner screams of insecurity.
Terfs on the other hand have serious intitutional power and have actually shaped international politics in their rhetoric. A few weirdos on an online discussion webpage does not compare to an international counter revolutionary bloc of fascists who have already enacted harm. It’s telling when there has already been an incident of terf-adjacent transphobia in this community than a “tankie infestation.”
Yeah, the lemmy devs/admins of lemmy.ml are tankies. Someone further down in this thread posted a link to an essay of dessaline’s (a lemmy dev and admin of lemmy.ml) full-on denying the Uyghur genocide.
Not at all, completely different political beliefs, and in all fairness I’ve never seen a far left person call got anything like concentration camps. However I do think there’s a degree of anti-Semitism there quite possibly related to the association lots of people make between Jews and the financial system playing into the natural far left opposition to capitalism. Also there’s the seeming obesession with Israel over other similar conflicts and issues around the world, at least in the British far left.
Are tankies really that big of a problem? No one worth their weight (or not chronically online) actually uncritically worships former socialist projects, the whole point is to study and preserve the nuance of what occured in former socialist projects for future socialism. Tankie is such a chronically online term that kills any discussion of former socialism whenever I see it in service of avoiding it altogether. 196 having it in its community banner screams of insecurity.
Terfs on the other hand have serious intitutional power and have actually shaped international politics in their rhetoric. A few weirdos on an online discussion webpage does not compare to an international counter revolutionary bloc of fascists who have already enacted harm. It’s telling when there has already been an incident of terf-adjacent transphobia in this community than a “tankie infestation.”
they’re not that big of a problem irl, but in the world of lemmy they’re a huge annoyance.
Yeah, the lemmy devs/admins of lemmy.ml are tankies. Someone further down in this thread posted a link to an essay of dessaline’s (a lemmy dev and admin of lemmy.ml) full-on denying the Uyghur genocide.
Yeah nah, tankies are harmless
They seem to harbour a lot of anti-Semitism in their beliefs.
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Not at all, completely different political beliefs, and in all fairness I’ve never seen a far left person call got anything like concentration camps. However I do think there’s a degree of anti-Semitism there quite possibly related to the association lots of people make between Jews and the financial system playing into the natural far left opposition to capitalism. Also there’s the seeming obesession with Israel over other similar conflicts and issues around the world, at least in the British far left.