The discourse around this is frankly unhinged - eviltoast

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?

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    8·
    5 months ago

    I’ve most recently seen a .ml praising the Taliban in an lgbtq+ community.

    Do you have a link to that?

    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
      11·
      5 months ago

      https://lemmy.ml/comment/11454789

      That might not work, here’s the thread: https://lemmy.zip/post/16774498

      Here’s the comment:

      Taliban is a very admirable group in their fight against a foreing invader. If you want people there to have a mentality that no longer condems individuals for their sexuality, they need to develop economically first. I think its naive to belive that an agricultural country set back in development many years by a foreing invasion will have any kind of progressive mindset. And no ecomic development will occur under invasion and war. So if theres any chance for a progressive mindset to come for the people there in the future, its path starts with the fight taliban did, even if they are against it themselves.