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      Tankies defend things like russian organised genocide during soviet union where they kept doing what hitler tried.

      So just like skinheads they are all for human suffering. Arguing over semantics at this point.

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          Because tankies are just red facists~

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                  Keep licking that boot. My mother’s side of the family was attacked and killed by a horde of Nazis and leninists. That’s right they were working together. Because after all why wouldn’t authoritarians work together when their interests align. And my father’s side of the family had genocide committed against it by the us government. All authoritarian governments whether they are Western or Eastern are bad. And the fact that this is your best answer pathetic. But completely expected and on brand. Never change.

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      As far as centrists are concerned, everyone to the left of Netanyahu is a tankie, and everyone to their left is somehow all the way to the right.

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        Maybe, but most Blåhaj or 196 users are far from being centrists.

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          In my experience, “tankie” is used in virtually all cases as a pejorative against the left, and not an identifier for actual tankies.

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            Making excuses for Russia or China’s ongoing crimes, and using the US’ crimes as a reason(?!?) for doing so, is usually what brings the term out.

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        please don’t give the term skinheads to the fascists. nazi punks fuck off ✌️

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          I know skinheads were originally a workers movement. But here in the states skinheads were white supremacists by the time they got imported. I’m from Dallas, Texas where skinheads were always Nazis and a big problem.

          Up with workers, fuck off to Nazis.

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            Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice was founded in 1987 by Marcus, a skinhead from New York City. It emerged as a response by suburban adolescents to the bigotry of the growing White Power Movement in 1982. Traditional skinheads (Trads) formed as a way to show that the skinhead subculture was not based on racism and political extremism.”

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            But there are lots of folks here who aren’t American? The vast majority of skinheads I’ve met irl here in Australia have been anti-fascist as heck. It’s just not as clear-cut as tankies.

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            On the west coast you’re right, on the east coast you’re wrong. -an East Coast skinhead that had interesting experiences in Orange county and Compton while on vacation

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        That one person with the Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice pfp seems alright