The “tankie” thing is such a Reddit holdover, both the word and the people it describes. Nobody outside of those hyper-online teenage ideology spaces like Twitter or Reddit cares about those made-up political categories that are only based on aesthetics.
Always remember that both the pro-Hamas pro-Assad “socialist” shitposter and the pro-Israeli pagan plural trans anarchist are some American high schoolers who are too anxious to go out to a store, let alone participate in a mass movement or join an organization. Nobody in the real world cares about those basement dwellers.
If the people you want to criticize have terrible political standings, and they just LARP as socialists while supporting inane reactionary actors like Russia, the Hamas, China or the DPRK, then make an actual argument against them and fight them on their standpoints in the actual class warfare out there, instead of making a dumb-ass childish meme. Go join a party, go agitate, go organize your workplace, go read something. Analyze the class politics they espouse, criticize them on that point, not on some moral failing.
Both “tankies” and “anti-tankies” only exist on Reddit. Nobody cares in real life.
Edit: To clarify, I mean “tankie” as it is used now on the internet for anyone who’s not an anarchist or social democrat, not its original meaning dating back half a century.
Yeah, for people who supported the crackdown on grassroots workers’ power protests in Prague. But that’s not what the word turned into via the internet.
The “tankie” thing is such a Reddit holdover, both the word and the people it describes. Nobody outside of those hyper-online teenage ideology spaces like Twitter or Reddit cares about those made-up political categories that are only based on aesthetics.
Always remember that both the pro-Hamas pro-Assad “socialist” shitposter and the pro-Israeli pagan plural trans anarchist are some American high schoolers who are too anxious to go out to a store, let alone participate in a mass movement or join an organization. Nobody in the real world cares about those basement dwellers.
If the people you want to criticize have terrible political standings, and they just LARP as socialists while supporting inane reactionary actors like Russia, the Hamas, China or the DPRK, then make an actual argument against them and fight them on their standpoints in the actual class warfare out there, instead of making a dumb-ass childish meme. Go join a party, go agitate, go organize your workplace, go read something. Analyze the class politics they espouse, criticize them on that point, not on some moral failing.
Both “tankies” and “anti-tankies” only exist on Reddit. Nobody cares in real life.
Edit: To clarify, I mean “tankie” as it is used now on the internet for anyone who’s not an anarchist or social democrat, not its original meaning dating back half a century.
Word comes from 80s Britain as far as I’m aware.
Yeah, for people who supported the crackdown on grassroots workers’ power protests in Prague. But that’s not what the word turned into via the internet.