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Pointing out the hypocrisy of an "anti-tankie" RadLib got my comment removed from Lemmy.ml
(lemmygrad.ml)
I'm astonished at how sensitive the mods must be over there.
Apparently you're allowed to say whatever baseless slander you like about the eeeeevil tankies but the minute someone says "Hold up a sec, you claim to be anti-authoritarian and yet you support authoritarianism either explicitly or implicitly?" and they have to shut it down immediately.
Regardless, I think I made a pretty solid counterargument to the typical complaint about communism being authoritarian.
Mfers skim read the Wikipedia entry on Hannah Arendt and start thinking they're justified in slinging accusations about "muh authoritarianism" smh.
"Authoritarian" is their favourite word. Completely, utterly meaningless. But everyone "knows it when they see it" so it makes for the perfect shibboleth to separate them from those evil authoritarian tankies.
The only good thing about the word is if someone tries to use it in an argument unironically, I know they have 0 idea of what they are talking about. A shame that is something people in the west seem to be proud of that though.