• bucho@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think that it’s interesting that tankies call themselves tankies in memes, and yet will get all bent out of shape if non-tankies refer to them as tankies. Like, I understand coopting hurtful terms as a sort of reclamation of the power of language… but really? Tankies is the term you want to reclaim? You want to associate yourself with authoritarian regimes using tanks to crush protestors? Alright, then.

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      Welcome to reality as a team sport. Words don’t mean things. It’s all just signalling - ingroup always good, outgroup always bad.

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      It’s the same as any extremist. When someone they deem lesser calls them what they are, they become offended, but when it’s themselves, it’s fine.

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        The term tankie dates back to 1956, when the soviets sent in tanks to crush a communist movement in Hungary. They wanted self-governance (while still being a communist nation) the soviets wanted a soviet puppet state to protect Moscow from the west.

        Tankies were the subset of western communists who supported the soviets, named such by the western communists who were not authoritarian worshiping fucks.

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          As a Hungarian, I felt obliged to do some reading. Lo and behold, you are correct. And so, I would like to take this opportunity and say

          Fuck '56 tankies, and fuck modern tankies. The paradox of tolerance holds true: if you tolerate these people’s deluded takes as ‘alernative viewpoints’, you move towards intolerance, whether you like it or not.

          Listening to the Overture to Egmont as I write this.

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        our culture

        You don’t have a culture, you have a eclectic group of dregs that can’t handle your reality.

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        1 year ago

        Are you talking about the Tiananmen Square Massacre?

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        That would explain why there is a video of the protesters singing “L’internacional”…but it’s still authoritarian repression.

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        LOL wut? Fuckin’ Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn’t even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.