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.comEnglish
    318·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      7 days ago

      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.”

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      165·
      7 days ago

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

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      209·
      8 days ago

      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”