I saw this post titled “Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds” (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)

I commented that “harm reduction” apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.

Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it’s my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I’m still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yeah it’s not a good look that Tankie now means “I don’t like genocide”. Just further dissolves the word’s meaning and enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.

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        Yeah it’s not a good look that Tankie now means “I don’t like genocide”.

        It’s what it’s meant on lemmy, particularly .world, for a while now. centrists just use it like (other) republicans use “woke.”

        It means “this person has an opinion I know I’m morally wrong about. I don’t want to change my position but I also don’t want to look bad, so I’ll pick a term I can’t define and use it as a cudgel against them.”

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        What things are we malevolent tankies going to do, aside from voicing our opinions in the fediverse? Enforce authoritarian bedtime?

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        enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.

        Making us sound so nefarious, and I’m only a little evil. The word tankie has definitely been getting worn out to the point of being the centrist equivalent of chuds calling people “woke”

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      I’ll investigate later, thanks for the ping. I’ve since unbanned some of the users, such as @hark@lemmy.world, the others I’m still investigating and some are also spam

      I’m fine with people sharing different views, even if they’re controversial. Tankies are also allowed to comment in the community, as long as everyone follows the rules and is mutually respectful towards each other, feel free to engage.