cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60070513
This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.
I’ve always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.
Some are now going full mask-off and openly supporting authoritarianism instead of going for plausible deniability. Had one earlier tell me leftists are supposed to be the ones oppressing the capitalists and fascists…