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Okay, that was great and informative, but doesn't disprove my point. Those people still identify as communist and that's just as valid as your self identification as communist. The difference is still in the nature of it being authoritative, which is what gets you called tankie, not the communist bit. If you want to stop all communists from getting labeled as tankie, then stop identifying the two things as being interchangeable, especially when they aren't interchangeable and the people using them are telling you exactly how they aren't interchangeable.
When I said "tankie is a pejorative for communist," I meant communist in the way most people think of the term. If you want to call anarchists communists, even if I think that is more confusing than clarifying due to the dramatic differences in communalization vs. Collectivization, then I'll restate it for you: "tankie is a pejorative for Marxist," then. While I have seen anarchists get called "tankie" before, it's overwhelmingly used against Marxists, and when the average person hears communist they think of Marxism, not anarchism.