The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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On another note. You can always tell the actual decency of a community on what is allowed and what isn’t. I ended up here cause I got sick and tired of the casual bigotry elsewhere. Normally a good way to make me leave. Hexbear isn’t perfect but its hell of a lot better then others.
Basically if you are not putting Black and other marginalized people first, your politics are probably going to suffer. If you do put them first, you’ll end up in the right place eventually.
The .world thread has an Adolf Hitler user and another with lots of upvotes using the R-slur. Who knew anti-communists would turn out to be racist and ableist?