Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren’t tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren’t tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like “tankie” indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it’s been used lately a lot to mean things like “doesn’t agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide” – which is drastically at odds with how I’ve seen the term used in the past, no?
tankie is just a blanket term to define ‘leftist i dislike’ now.
and its usually accompanied with a lot of strawmen like we are the most evil thing to ever walk the earth for an unspecified reason, and how we are fighting for things we aren’t.
this very instance has a lot of it, so do a few more.