This is usually how users that use the ‘tankie’ as a pejorative out themselves as anti-leftist or just plain uninformed. There’s already a term for those who support that kind of fascistic rhetoric: Nazbols.
Either they don’t know the term, or they do and choose not to. The former owns up quick, the latter digs in and keeps on a grudge about it.
No surprises here.







What I mean is the way tankie is used as a pejorative isn’t really about defining a tangible political group so much as saddling socialists with answering for, or plain being, nazbols.