I kind of hope that seeing this discourse play out in real time will make some of the self-proclaimed anarchists&leftists who love to call others tankies realize where their favourite left-bashing term comes from and how it gets utilized.
Tankie has been used against anti-imperialist anarchists and demsocs for years, if they still haven’t caught on to it it’s unlikely they’ll realize now.
in fact, the main purpose of the pejorative is to separate and filter the anti-imperialists from the chauvinists, and protect the chauvinist majority from the ideas of the anti-imperialists
I kind of hope that seeing this discourse play out in real time will make some of the self-proclaimed anarchists&leftists who love to call others tankies realize where their favourite left-bashing term comes from and how it gets utilized.
Tankie has been used against anti-imperialist anarchists and demsocs for years, if they still haven’t caught on to it it’s unlikely they’ll realize now.
in fact, the main purpose of the pejorative is to separate and filter the anti-imperialists from the chauvinists, and protect the chauvinist majority from the ideas of the anti-imperialists