A slur is like a more advanced pejorative that you shouldn't say, usually because it targets people who can't change whatever trait is being targetted. Tankie isn't a slur, because I'm allowed to call you a tankie all day. Hope that helped!

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ok so everything else I said stands just put pejorative in place for slur.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I still disagree with you, there's definitely some misfires and people misusing the term, but the majority of people who use the word know that it's a pejorative for exclusively authoritarian communists, usually specifically those who would look the other way when their "socialist" government commits atrocities.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

the majority of people who use the word know that it’s a pejorative for exclusively authoritarian communists

Yes in theory, but unless you are a diviner or mind reader identifying who is and isn't especially is short online debate is far from a science.

For example if you point out there is no Uyghur genocide even if you perform the 1000 prostrations, and explain the reality of the abuses how it was still terrible and inexcusable it doesn't matter what your wider beliefs are you will be called a tankie.

Which is exactly my point it is at its core a pejorative specifically to put down those who do not tow the anti-communist line just right by equating them with the straw man of some hyper evil pro genocide caricature.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Probably because saying it's not a genocide is literally just a tankie talking point that got turned into "uhmmm acskually theyre just doing all these humans rights abuses that result in cultural erasure, death, SA, etc. that's not TECHNICALLY genocide, somehow"

I mean, are you saying that the forced assimilation, reeducation camps, forced labor, forced sterilization, etc isn't a genocide?