FediTips (@feditips@mstdn.social)
mstdn.social
Content warning: Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression

Please don’t put any hate comments against the developers of lemmy or against the person who posted this.

I am also unhappy about what the main lemmy instance is doing.

What are your thoughts?

  • nikifa
    77·
    3 years ago

    you’re aware that dev of lemmy use the term tankie as a self description too?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      115·
      3 years ago

      Same logic as saying that Black people use the n word colloquially and therefore it’s fine to use it as a slur.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        91·
        3 years ago

        Genuinely curious: Is Tankie a slur? I’ve seen more communists use it than noncommunists. Though that might simply reveal who I like to hang out with more.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
          71·
          3 years ago

          Tankie is a pejorative term that originates with CPGB to denounce the use of tanks by the Soviet during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Recently it’s been picked up by Anarchists and liberals as a slur against people who support existing socialist states like China or Cuba. Communists tend to use it ironically nowadays because the term pretty much lost all meaning at this point.

      • nikifa
        59·
        3 years ago

        wow, I was already wondering if you gonna refer to the collective experience/history of slavery, colonialism and what not all of black people, and argue that referring to some Marxist-Leninist as tankies to be the same logic. It is not! You did not experience this sort of repression, so stop claiming as if there’s some similarity between me calling you a tankie, and discriminating, triggering, devaluing…etc. black folks.

        your thinking is so white I can even smell it.