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A thread "Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression" on Mastodon (mstdn.social)

submitted 3 years ago by the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Please don't put any hate comments against the developers of lemmy or against the person who posted this.

I am also unhappy about what the main lemmy instance is doing.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] nikifa@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

you're aware that dev of lemmy use the term tankie as a self description too?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Same logic as saying that Black people use the n word colloquially and therefore it's fine to use it as a slur.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Genuinely curious: Is Tankie a slur? I've seen more communists use it than noncommunists. Though that might simply reveal who I like to hang out with more.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Tankie is a pejorative term that originates with CPGB to denounce the use of tanks by the Soviet during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Recently it's been picked up by Anarchists and liberals as a slur against people who support existing socialist states like China or Cuba. Communists tend to use it ironically nowadays because the term pretty much lost all meaning at this point.