I like that he points out hidden suggestion behind word “tankie” that only Western “communists” got the it right, while most other revolutionary movements across the globe got got it wrong.
It comes from a perspective of privilege and ignorance - supposedly we should not support existing revolutionary movements, but sit on our asses and complain about capitalism while condemning every attempt to stop this horrible imperialist machine. Most people who suffer the most would probably not agree with this point of view, but they are ignored.
It seems that these people do not take this into account.
I wish these white supremacist liberals would just be honest about who they don’t like.
Gentleman
I suggest changing that to “Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone else”. keyword: suggest. Also sorry for being nitpicky
Guys, gals and N-pals works. Or how bout we come up with a gender neutral way to refer to each other. Something like… comrades?
;)
N-palsNothing, just got a false alarm.
False alarm? A youtuber I watch uses that as an intro to her videos, it’s just to cover enbies.
Idk it sounded like the n-word to me. Anyways, interesting
Ah! Ok that didn’t even occur to me cause of the original context of a trans leftist using it to include non-binary viewers of her vids. But I can see the potential for confusion.
Yeah, it’s like adding P to LGBT
For plus? Or for pan?
I propose “Okay, everyone!”
I have something better: “Ladies, Gents and Enbies”.
I use this in place of “Ladies and Gentlemen” these days anyway.
Also good, I just liked the rhyming of gals and n(on-binary)-pals, it’s satisfying in the ear.
Guys, gals and NB pals
It’s not nitpicky, online socialist spaces already have too much of a problem with “brocialism”
Isn’t “brocialism” a term for an unaware patriarchally influenced socialist? seems like wanting inclusion for non-binary people would be the opposite of that
? Yes, I’m saying it’s not nit picky to ask to change the title because of that
I think I was just confused
Gentlemen are more of a polite way to refer to ppl so my suggestion would be “Noble Nonbinaries”
“Noble”? We aren’t inbred though.
I couldn’t think of something else
Nah, that’s not too nit-picky. We are communists, and we are here to change the world for the better. I think our wording should reflect our will to destroy the old world and to forge a new, better one in it’s wake.
In popular discourse, Hungary, in 1956 was visited by a mysterious people from abroad. Where did they come from? Who were they? Some thought they were the infamous ‘‘Asiatic hordes’’ from Western mythology, that show up in history every now and then to sow chaos in the garden; others thought they were like the ‘‘Sea Peoples’’ of legend, that crushed the Egyptian Empire, and many thought they came from the jungle, because they knew these people were not relatively European, nor relatively civilized. The British papers at the time noted that these people came riding in armored cars called ‘‘tanks’’, which had apparently not been seen since WW2, and from lack of imagination and relying on western sources, they began to call them ‘‘tankies’’.
Watched the video itself. It was pretty good, Hakim did an excellent job on explaining the term tankie and why it’s often a meaningless insult just to shut down an argument (esepcially when a liberal uses it just because they hate being proven wrong)
