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I've run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?

ETA All of you are amazing! A huge thank you to everyone who responded, and an extra thank you to those who have provided links or explanations to further and/or related information. I am learning so much by reading all of these comments!

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[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hakim explains: https://youtu.be/LcJ5NrJtQ8g

Vijay Prashad (regularly works with Chomsky) explains: https://youtu.be/tsqE9kEsDVY

The Deprogram explains: https://youtu.be/YVYVBOFYJco

In short, "tankie" is a thought-terminating phrase thrown into any conversations where people want to get others to terminate all thought coming from people to their left. It gets thrown at communists by other communists, it gets thrown at communists by anarchists, it gets thrown at all of the above by socdems, it gets thrown at all of the above by liberals, and it gets thrown at all of the above including liberals by fascists.

Its function in actual practice is that it moves discourse and spaces rightwards. Anyone using the phrase should be completely disregarded as a person that wants you to keep your brain closed.

[–] MaoWasRight@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That top down explanation is pretty funny and accurate. Everyone is a Tankie to fascists.

[–] Epicurus0319@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankies are either:

  • Blue-haired white college kids from high-income families going through the commie phase that many go through due to academia’s fascination with at least the theory of it and the fact that such students start out spending most of what little free time they have online

  • The stereotypical basement-dwelling, probable-chomo neckbeards with BO who moderate large subreddits, unironically believe that work should be abolished and never socially matured past high school. Examples include Doreen Ford and awkwardtheturtle.

  • Edgy American 13-year-olds from high-income families who just discovered politics and chose (their idea of) communism over nazism and unironically stan Putin because they think he’s fighting something something gay/pronouns (which totally aren’t despised in Ukraine too)- as well as many other free and fair governments like North Korea and the Chinese Communist Party.

And sealioning is a type of internet trolling where you repeatedly make incessant, bad-faith attempts to “just have a debate” and then ignoring all responses unread.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Tankie" is a term originally used within the left-wing political sphere to describe those who supported the Soviet Union, including its use of military force to maintain its influence over its satellite states, particularly referring to the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968 with tanks. Today, it's often used more broadly, sometimes pejoratively, to describe people who uncritically support or idealize authoritarian socialist or communist regimes, often ignoring or downplaying their human rights abuses.

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[–] albinanigans@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone once described Tankies (at least the ones that are behind the Lemmy codebase) as "conservative communists who think the Tiananmen Square Massacre was a hoax" and uh, I just find that fitting.

[–] Serdan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never seen anyone call it a hoax.

[–] albinanigans@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well, except for the whole communism thing. Seeing as communism and autocracy are diametrically opposed as ideologies.

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