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      No, you got it backwards. I’m saying that your positions make you a tankie because you oppose genocide. I’m praising you!

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          Hold on, another point here: so are Maoists and communists that strictly take the Soviet side of the Sino-Soviet split not tankies?

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              You should know, the origin of the term “tankie” is related to Khruschev sending in tanks to squash a fascist movement in Hungary in 1956, way before the 1989 protests in Beijing.

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                  How do you feel about the Kent State Genocide?

                  What about the genocide of Ashli Babbitt?

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                  As a Jew, I feel so safe for my future know that genocide as a term has been diminished to “When the government kills people”.

                  Say, on a completely unrelated note, did you know that 23% of American adults 18-39 think the Shoah was fabricated or exaggerated?

                  Also, I guess genocide also includes people resisting genocide, apparently.

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                    Also, I guess genocide also includes people resisting genocide, apparently.

                    I feel like the volume of nonsense that user spewed in this thread really overshadowed the fact that he called the Palestinian resistance genocidal lmao.

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                    did you know that 23% of American adults 18-39 think the Shoah was fabricated or exaggerated?

                    That’s horrifying.

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                  Okay, you said “tankies are defined by their defense of genocide” but then say that there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square.

                  For one, that’s false. No massacre has ever taken place in Tiananmen Square, and if you could find me a source that says otherwise I’d welcome it.

                  But also, massacre is not the same as genocide. There must be something else you’re talking about.