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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I'm not sure I've seen any evidence of it existing though, is it just a Boogeyman, or so something that happened a while back? An in joke of some sort?

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankie now means the same as Nazi — “a person with a political view I don’t like”.

There are actual neo-Nazis — yes, I mean people who venerate Hitler, use Nazi Party symbols, advocate antisemitism and genocide — actively involved in politics in many countries, including the US, Germany, and Russia. Do you deny this?

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Which part of the parent comment implied that there aren't actual Nazis?

[-] Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago

There are also people who do not fall into that category yet still get called Nazis by political opponents.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Why would you bring up this "test" statement?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If someone claimed that people just say "theft" to mean "transactions I don't like", that would be denying the existence of actual theft.

If someone claimed that people just say "slavery" to mean "jobs I don't like", that would be denying the existence of actual slavery.

Same goes here.

Pointing out denialism is usually only a problem to the people engaged in it, and the wrongdoers they're defending.

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