[deleted] - originally fromr/GenZhou
a “tankie” is functionally just any one who is too historically literate to get co-opted by liberalism anymore.
that’s the part they actually give a damn about - nothing to do with tanks/“totalitarianism” really.
Liberals are perfectly at home with “genocide apologists” and “those who glorify violence” when said person has politically convenient (i.e. capitalist sympathetic) positions.
Liberalism embraces:
Actual ideological liberals
Anyone willing to enforce liberalism materially (even fascists)
Anyone who gets duped into promoting liberalism (even if this just means failing to oppose it)
The apolitical
If you don’t meet one of the above criterion then you default to “tankie” because when you can’t be duped you become inconvenient and must be stigmatized.
[deleted] - originally from r/GenZhoua “tankie” is functionally just any one who is too historically literate to get co-opted by liberalism anymore.
that’s the part they actually give a damn about - nothing to do with tanks/“totalitarianism” really.
Liberals are perfectly at home with “genocide apologists” and “those who glorify violence” when said person has politically convenient (i.e. capitalist sympathetic) positions.
Liberalism embraces:
If you don’t meet one of the above criterion then you default to “tankie” because when you can’t be duped you become inconvenient and must be stigmatized.