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Seeing libs seethe about “too many tankies” is really funny.
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Look amigo, I get there is a lot of depth to be had in a discussion like this, but I'm just explaining what people generally mean when they say tankie.
I would agree they are bad Communists, but unfortunately they are extremely visible and influence how non-Leftists see Communists, which is why many Leftists are quick and eager to disavow any connection with them.
They are bad because they oppress the privileged, I assume. The privileged do not need communism. Leave communism to the unprivileged people.
No I mean like how homosexuals were persecuted
They were persecuted, sadly. Communist countries stopped doing that shit earlier than capitalist ones.
True, an example of this was homosexuality being decriminalized in the GDR (East Germany) in 1957, it was only in 1969 that the FRG (West Germany) did it.
for real. compare cuba and china with other countries in their regions.
Yes, but I'm referring to people defending that persecution instead of just accepting that Communist countries can also be criticized
Do you have an example of this? Because I've literally never once seen this here.
I don't keep examples of internet extremists, and I wasn't speaking within the context of this community
I wasnt concerned about “tankies” until I discovered they doubt chinese concentration camps for Uighur people
Saying China has "concentration camps" does a disservice to the real concentration camps of Nazi Germany. You're diluting the definition until it no longer means anything. Same thing is happening with the word genocide now.
Concentrations camps were not invented by the nazis.
I’ll leave this footage here.
Ah you're right. They go back to the Boer and Philippine wars and were operated by the British and Americans, respectively. Anyway, this video just looks to be a prison transport? I think we should get rid of prisons BTW, but prisons aren't concentration camps.
Prisons aren’t camps. Agreed.
That is footage of prison transfer. What made you think that proves anything remotely close to "concentration camp"?