• Klara@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          11 months ago

          Communism isn’t bad per se, authoritarianism is, but there are many authoritarian regimes going under the name ‘communist’, thus we have a term for that: tankie. Using different terms to describe the Israeli state (like fascist, ethno-nationalist, or Zionist) and its supporters does not mean it’s not bad. It really is! It’s just categorically different in the ideology espoused by them, and having language to describe that is not bad.

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          11 months ago

          Words have meaning you know. That is just the meaning of the word tankie. If you fail to understand that, I feel sorry for you.

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          11 months ago

          plenty of the people leveraging the word “tankie” against tankies are communists, or at least socialists, just less authoritarian ones. and i’d venture to guess that the vast majority of those people are anti-genocide, including the case of Gaza.

          please take the smallest of measures to understand the positions at foot before stuffing straw men into everyone’s mouths. you look quite foolish here.

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      11 months ago

      no that doesn’t mean that. tankies are communist. most americans are not generally communists