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What is a tankie? Can you clearly and succinctly define it?
Personally, I define tankies as the fucks who support the Russian invasion and deny Tiananmen Square. You can be communist without being a fascist bootlicker
How can it have any real meaning if everyone has their own personal definition?
Lots of things work like that. It’s called connotation (personal definition and significance), which does not require denotation (an actual definition)
Yeah sounds like the definition of a slur
Slur, “an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation.” So, yes. I’m not particularly worried about slurs against tankies, just like I don’t care about insulting or harming the reputation of nazis
ETA: pigs is a slur for cops, that’s a slur I don’t mind either
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