Ok... so what does 'tankie' actually mean? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Andrzej3K@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I'm pretty good at picking things up from context, so I'm gonna say a tankie is someone opposed to the deployment of tanks against a captive civilian population, the police having tanks, and tanks' worth of tear gas being used on peaceful protestors?

(please don't reply with earnest answers to my question, thx)

EDIT - some of y'all are failing to follow this last instruction smdh

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[-] redladadriver@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

The classic explanation (at least how it ends up being used)...

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

The people in the picture are

Row 1: Neslon Mandela, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis

Row 2: Huey P. Newton, Thomas Sankara, Amílcar Cabral, W. E. B. Du Bois

Row 3: Kwame Ture, Paul Robeson, Leila Khaled, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, Fred Hampton

I knew most of these figures from before, but there were a few where I knew the name but not the face, or the face but not the name, or had never heard of them at all.