tankies actively prop up anything anti-west, and since the west is leading the charge in embracing the queer community, they tend to attack that too. doesn't help that the two regimes they like to prop up the most, russia and china, also have extremely anti-queer policies

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh, I understand then. We're thinking of entities like the CCP when we think of "tankies", or the far-left. This makes perfect sense to me.

It's a really strange dichotomy to witness far-left countries like China, and then the "far-left" political spectrum here in the United States. Socialism within each of these contexts seems very different. Like, yes, there are some similarities, but LGBTQ+ folks are treated completely opposite based on my exposure thus far to both of these geopolitical belief structures.

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, that's why left/right is super reductive imo. whenever dealing with tankies i tend to refer to the two-axis political compass because tankies are authleft, while the US far-left is libleft, which is a huge distinction. but political opinion is not a scalar, and neither is it a two-element vector, it's a very complex thing, the left/right distinction only works as long as you're discussing a singular country and sometimes not even then. (for example, a lot of european countries have a lot more than two parties in their political spectrum, it's not as simple as a democrat/republican alignment here)

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

the west is leading the charge in embracing the queer community

Cuba has the world's most progressive and inclusive legislation affecting lgbt people as of reforming their Family legislation actually.