Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?
Ah ok, I use beehaw.org and even though I always switch to “all” posts, I’m probably not seeing all of the relevant discussions. That and lemmy.world is defederated, even so I do lurk on .world. Now I kinda want to see these freakout posts.
Oh boy, then do I have something for you! One of the more prolific tankie decriers on .world goes by PugJesus. If you check their profile, you’ll be able to find a ton of it.
I wanted to avoid dropping names, but that one user is solely responsible for a big part of the problem on that instance. If you ask them, they’ll claim to be leftist, but they constantly lash out at the left, and every political opinion they espouse is very centrist/liberal
They’ve straight up called me a fascist because I said I disagree with the incarceration and deportation of Latin-American immigrants, no matter how popular the idea is that we should persecute them. I don’t bother to comment much on .world anymore because every thread is a cesspit of toxicity.
PJ is one of those liberals who’ll say they support leftist policy personally but it’s just not popular among ‘most people’ so we shouldn’t act on them.
A status quo warrior through and through.
They make me understand how something like the Holocaust can happen. “The majority of people hate [x ethnic group], so that makes it ok to persecute them.”