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What's a Tankie?
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The current usage is as an anticommunist pejorative and McCarthyite strawman.
That's just what you want it to mean so you can distance yourselves from the term entirely.
Wikipedia has a pretty clear cut definition, and it's the one the majority of people (who aren't one themselves anyways) use
I gave a clear-cut and more useful definition that actively reflects reality. There are no groups liberals would consider "non-authoritarian" and communist that have any relevance. It's in practice a pejorative for communists, full-stop.