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Documenting hate-speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse


What is a Tankie?


Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

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Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia(Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism or any variation of Tankie Ideology. There is no justifying Genocide.

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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support "militant opposition to capitalism", and a more modern online variation, which means "something like 'a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.'" He was critical of both uses.[21] The Intercept journalist Roane Carey identified the "key element in the tankie mindset [as] the simple-minded assumption that only the United States can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported."[22]

Tankies on lemmy.ml and hexbear tend to support all authoritarian communists from Stalin to Mao. They defend Russia and hate Ukraine. They defend Hamas (not just supporting Palestinian civilians but the Hamas organization too). They defend everything China does. They deny the existence of many of the atrocities committed by any country in opposition to the US.

[–] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I'd never heard it before and assumed it was a lemmy thing.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Hexbear, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad are the main Tankie instances