Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.

  source

  • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no left equivalent, and horseshoe theory is horseshit.

    • ‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_s…
    • Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so was unsurprisingly anti-communist. She was also quite racist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
      Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

      One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

    source

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s a thread with geneva_convenience suggesting that “blood and soil” really isn’t that bad.

      Remember, if you argue this hard for .ml — you don’t deserve rights.

      source

      • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        [deleted]

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For the non-tankies

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism

      source

      • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, please do read it:

        The comparison of Nazism and Stalinism is controversial in academia.

        See also: Horseshoe theory

        source
• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing or ignoring what they say.

  source

  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree 100%, also it reminded me of This Clanker

    source

    • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😂

      I guess that’s what inspired this The Deprogram episode title: 📺 Anti Klankkker Action

      source