Saw a comrade post this as a response in the Mousolini dunk thread, that become a dunk thread on an annoying lib calling us tankies lol.
Thought this was really insightful, and from a different angle than what i usually see as the rascist connotations of “tankie” and of western left anti-communism, and thought it deserved its own thread. Particularly, since the influx of western anti-cummunist takes we’ve been dealing with recently.
There are already racialized versions of political slurs for Chinese and Russians. Anyone who professes a positive opinion of China, no matter how true or mild, is a “Wumao” and the same for Russia is a “Vatnik”.
Both can also be “bots” because no human could ever think well of those places. Also probably projection for the fact that much of this sentiment is probably coming from a huge US astroturfing operation operating out of Elgin Airforce Base.
This is a good fucking take and plays into the point I keep making of the nationalist/internationalist issue surrounding this mess. It definitely has a nationalist component I’m completely with @axont@hexbear.net on this.
Yeah I’ve been trying to see the term “tankie” as an obfuscated way of saying “traitor” recently. It’s not a word that applies to people actually from socialist countries most of the time, it’s what someone from the imperial core gets called if they express admiration for the scary foreign places.
Also hello everyone! Sorry I’m not used to attention like this thread lol
I’d appreciate being called a traitor straight up so I can respond
