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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Aren't world the wokes/libs/whatever is the current pejorative

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah world is full of liberals but they get real uppity when you start going after liberalism from the left

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

This is partly why I've chosen a different instance other than .world. I can control what is and isn't in my feed, and it's not like contemporary American centrist liberals have the best ideas when it comes to the current political landscape.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Compared to the rest of Lemmy they're not very woke

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Apparently everyone's a "lib" when you're an authoritarian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

American republicans have less than zero political literacy, and you are going off their understanding of liberal. Here's a 300 page book going through what liberalism meant to every major liberal philosopher and how they dealt with the contradictions over the last 250 years or so. Guess which definition is used in any serious political work in the last 250 years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be clear I think using "liberal" to mean "socialist" is just as stupid as using it to mean "economically neo-liberal". Most dictionary definitions concentrate on the actual definition of the word in everyday usage and then also mention the political theory definitions. Choosing your insult to be a word that most people assume means something else is a terrible way to communicate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You're not wrong, communists do have issues with effective communication. It's not trivial due to definitions and framing propagated by liberal institutions being designed, sometimes intentionally, to make it more difficult to communicate our ideas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Nope, Tankie is very clearly defined as "Authoritarian Communists"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

liberal is the tankie version of screaming woke at everything.

Source: you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Little too close for comfort huh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's a dilemma, how to know if someone yelling everything they don't like is lib & woke is either a maga or a tankie

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tankies don't scream woke, they only scream lib. Hope that helps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They don't scream woke but they still hate discussions about marginalized communities because they are all privileged white class reductionists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

But it makes sense once you think about it. The patriarchy is about ten or twenty times as old as capitalism (depending on the definition). Of cause it will disappear once capitalism is abolished. Racism is about twice as old as capitalism. How could it function without capitalism once again?
But tbf hexbear does have a sizable trans community