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.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 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.”