Everyone, there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie and the ability for the lemmy community to criticize the Chinese government.
I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.
Ask anyone to say the following
I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.
The admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml will not say this. Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.
Thats all and happy posting!
You think so? I think the definition has been the same all the way, a communist fundamentalist with the tank possible alluding to Tiananmen Square.
I present to you a simple philosophical conundrum when it comes to asking people if they are lying…
What if they lie when they say they don’t lie?
Of course admins of the mentioned instances won’t say that, they’re quite outspoken about their political world views. It’s not a big Jack Huges revelation.
Also, I don’t think a political stance has much to say about trustworthiness. If someone says they’ll purge you for having different opinions and then do it? Exactly as promised. 🤷
The tank has nothing to do with Tiananmen, it’s a reference to the Hungarian revolution and Prague uprising of the late 50s and 60s.