• 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.

      • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        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.