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.
It’s just name calling. The words have lost their meaning. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
No, no it isn’t. I have given a very concise description of a Tankie elsewhere in this post. Perhaps you should read it.
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I like to challenge ideas.
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I like libertarian socialists, I might be one myself. I just think that the word tankie gets thrown around a lot. If everyone (I don’t like) is a tankie, no one is.
Let me put it this way; If Bernie is a sexist (and he was called sexist many times from different groups of people), then everyone can be called a sexist, and the word has lost it’s meaning.
You really think the word sexism has no meaning anymore?
Do you think the same about racism?
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“More recently it has seen a less specific use of the term” from wiki 2020 (oldest I found, kinda weird)
But yeah, it was just a gut feeling, now “verified” by wiki… Doesn’t give much more information though…
https://web.archive.org/web/20200923023209/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
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I feel you may have misjudged this group then. That is part of why I made this post to try and get a consensus as to what the people of this community define as tankies and it is surprisingly consistent for something that you claim has lost all meaning.