Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

  • LazyCorvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    93
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Sure, nazis are a bigger problem than tankies, but no one here needs to be told to look out for nazis. That’s kinda self explanatory.

    But tankies are a lot less well known, but still have a very destructive ideology. Just look at the comments here — there are multiple people who asked what tankies even are.

    Saying “Kick nazis out of 196” would be redundant, which can’t be said for “Kick tankies out of 196”.

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      The only issue is that I’ll see perfectly logical socialist, communist or anarchist arguments get attacked as “tankie” and I worry that all this hullabaloo is just rightists trying to set back leftist ideology by painting it all as tankie ideology.

      • Unmarketable Plushie@pawb.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I can attest to this. I’ve been called a tankie (on this subreddit, too) for politely asking someone not to call people the R-word.