"Tankie" is going to eventually be the next "woke". Tucker Carlson is going to start calling AOC and Omar tankies, it's going to spread to all Democrats, and then libs will start making memes like "Yeah, I'm a tankie, this is pretty badass" with photos of Sherman tanks.
it’s going to spread to all Democrats, and then libs will start making memes like “Yeah, I’m a tankie, this is pretty badass” with photos of Sherman tanks.
It’s meant to lump together progressive liberals, socdems, reformists, and people who are sympathetic to communism but not communists themselves. IIRC, it was originally used to refer to FDR, Henry Wallace and other left-wing members of the Democratic Party by anti-New Dealers. The insinuation being that while they weren’t fully red, they were “close enough” or in denial.
By the Nixon days, it mutated to accuse anyone of being “too soft” on Communism, even Milquetoast liberals who are still vocally anticommunist themselves.
Naturally, a fully-dyed Red would/should object to the label. Same as “liberal”.
I have a friend who posts on a reactionary Chinese-speaking message board for finance and tech bros. Apparently, they use a term like "pink" as a pejorative for leftys also.
"Tankie" is going to eventually be the next "woke". Tucker Carlson is going to start calling AOC and Omar tankies, it's going to spread to all Democrats, and then libs will start making memes like "Yeah, I'm a tankie, this is pretty badass" with photos of Sherman tanks.
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Tankie is more like the new "commie" or "pinko".
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Does "pinko" have a different meaning or history or something?
It’s meant to lump together progressive liberals, socdems, reformists, and people who are sympathetic to communism but not communists themselves. IIRC, it was originally used to refer to FDR, Henry Wallace and other left-wing members of the Democratic Party by anti-New Dealers. The insinuation being that while they weren’t fully red, they were “close enough” or in denial.
By the Nixon days, it mutated to accuse anyone of being “too soft” on Communism, even Milquetoast liberals who are still vocally anticommunist themselves.
Naturally, a fully-dyed Red would/should object to the label. Same as “liberal”.
I have a friend who posts on a reactionary Chinese-speaking message board for finance and tech bros. Apparently, they use a term like "pink" as a pejorative for leftys also.