• girl@unilem.org
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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

        How can it have any real meaning if everyone has their own personal definition?

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          1 year ago

          Lots of things work like that. It’s called connotation (personal definition and significance), which does not require denotation (an actual definition)

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              1 year ago

              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