PugJesus OP , 5 hours ago

I lack the vocabulary to express why I don’t like the term and want better ways to describe this type of subject.

Might be because tankie is sometimes used as a ‘thought terminating cliche’ - you say someone’s a tankie, and then voila, you don’t have to deal with them. End of.

That’s not how it should be used, of course. If you accuse someone of being a tankie fuck, it should be to highlight what you are dealing with - “This is pattern recognition - don’t be fooled into thinking their motivations are to ‘just ask questions’ or whatever the excuse du jour is, they’re fascists painted red who consistently argue for fascism, and their arguments should be studied and refuted with that in mind, not viewed independent of context”

But people, even people on the same ‘side’ as oneself, often prefer the easy path of a thought-terminating cliche.