• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    21 hours ago

    Well, at least it saves us a lot of time when you skip straight to the name-calling phase.

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      21 hours ago

      You guys are so boring and your faux-highmindedness falls flat when none of you ever stop calling communists “tankies”

        • 秦始皇帝@lemmy.ml
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          19 hours ago

          While not being entirely the same

          I don’t call all communists tankies. Only the tankies.

          This reeks of “I’m not calling all Black/Asian/Muslim people Slur/Pejorative just those who don’t fit what I think the good ones should look like” rightwing nonsense.

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            But it’s not, you see, because tankies call themselves tankies, and it’s a voluntary political designation besides.

            Is calling fundamentalists “fundies” a slur?

            Is calling Republicans “elephants” a slur? Democratic “donkeys” a slur?

            What about the term “Dems?”, is that a slur? “Rs”?

            It reeks of it only because they are using single words to describe a multi-layered something for the sake of brevity. It’s a pronoun. You are against pronouns.