I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.
I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.
For me personally I would define a tankie as some one who cares more about the name of what they are supporting as compared to the actual outcome. eg someone that supports the CCP because it calls itself communist or Russia for the same reason. But just saying that the CCP is not the bogeyman* that the US says that it is does not fall into that category for me.
If someone said that china was actually a communist paradise and that all of the bad things were western propaganda I would think they were a tankie. If they said that China was a country they enjoyed living in and it was not as bad as it is often portrayed as I would probably think that that person was not a tankie.
Edit: boogie man --> bogeyman. (thank you Ilovethebomb)
Bogeyman. Boogieman is someone good at dancing.
you don’t know that im not afraid of people that can dance.
We can dance if we want to!
That’s an American vs. British thing. In America, it’s the boogieman.
As a dual national, it is both for me, bitches!
I don’t get to be afraid of the bunyip though.
ngl I solely based it off of oogie boogie for how to spell it at first.