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.
Authoritarian “communist” who thinks killing and oppressing people is totally okay just as long as they’re the ones doing it for “the right reasons”. They think the West is inherently evil and bad and must be destroyed, and the East is flawless and good and must be defended at any and all costs. Dissent will not be tolerated.
Don’t let them fool you, they are not leftists. They’re red fascists.