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The woke left! (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Gerryflap 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never said I was 100% against the idea of communism, nor against people who think it's a good idea. I'm simply against the subset of commies that seems to blindly defend horrible regimes like the Chinese communist party. And sadly the latter seems well represented here, which is the group I'd refer to as tankies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That seems like a complete deflection, it has nothing to do with my prior comment? Do you or do you not consider Nelson Mandela, a man who honored and revered Stalin, to be an evil tankie?

Since you're intent on switching this to be about China, here are his views on China: https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f3063444f78457a6333566d54/share_p.html

What I'm trying to get at here is that this whole "muh ebil tankies" shit is, fundamentally, something you would have been saying to GOOD PEOPLE historically, if you were alive at the time of Mandela's struggles you would have been among the crowd screaming COMMIE and PINKO and demanding his head.

This is the crowd you are putting yourself in with this all or nothing behaviour towards those of us in the marxist left.

Step away from the "tankies are evil" behaviour and talk to us. You'll find things to be significantly more complex than the cartoon caricature that this word creates.