folks as a consequence of the current conflict in palestine i am happy to welcome chomskyans into the tankie club

the chomsky subreddit has been under constant attack from r/neoliberal for years now, any actual principled left stance is grounds for being called a tankie - even when anarchists present the principled stance

How long until anyone left of a right-wing goose-stepping Nazi is called a tankie?

left unity in our time

I think we all condemn the Palestinian's decision to deploy the al-Quds Martyr's Brigades in to Hungary in 1956.

Big Joel (on his Little Joel YouTube channel) made the point that the word 'woke' has come to mean anything that right-wingers don't like. Anti-bigotry is woke, but so are climate science, vaccines, bike lanes, etc. Some right-wingers say or believe that it has a more specific meaning, but the reality is that anytime they want to dismiss an idea that doesn't fit their worldview, they can call it 'woke' and their audience will understand what they mean.

The word 'tankie' has become the liberal equivalent. Forget the idea that it refers to a specific thread of leftism, or even that it has to refer to leftism at all. It's just the word that liberals use as shorthand for someone who disagrees with them about a specific issue, and there isn't more to it than that.

I am a tankie as in we should give tanks to Palestine

/u/WastedTime32

/r/StupidPol

I am concerned with how dogmatic I have observed the leftist response to the conflict. I deviate from the interpretation in other subs in the fact that I am unwilling to view the Israel/Palestine conflict from the same exact framework as any other colonial state, because of the fact that the state of Israel originated in circumstances that are uniquely different from any other case.

It boils down to this I suppose. Most leftists as I’ve seen think that if a situation can possible fulfill the model of colonial oppression, than it must. Myself, I favor a more mailable framework from which to operate. It is up to you to decide if by this I mean to convince people to adopt a framework which is more apologetic towards the state of Israel, or if I’m simply building a more robust framework based in critical analysis and observation.

Then, in /r/ChangeMyView...

Philosophy is not dictated by demonstrable truths. You seem to be misunderstanding the point of philosophical inquiry. To say that philosophy should be “true” is a broad sweeping claim which is inaccurate. Different kinds of philosophical inquiry have different goals. There are certain kinds of philosophy that you may be interested in if what you seem Is a philosophical look into truths, but that is not nor has it ever been a constitutive premise of philosophy.

Where did it lead you Noam, where?!