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  • FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml
    4·
    12 小时前

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

      • FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 小时前

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

          • FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml
            51·
            12 小时前

            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.

              • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                3 小时前

                How do you feel about the Kent State Genocide?

                What about the genocide of Ashli Babbitt?

              • agentant (He/Him)@lemmy.ml
                5·
                10 小时前

                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.

              • FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml
                51·
                12 小时前

                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.