i seriously don’t understand the strong emotional reaction some people have against posts by “tankies”. Everything i have read here and in other .ml communities usually comes from an honest place as far as i can tell. Most if not all communists/marxists identify as such because they’ve identified issues with the prevailing system and try to find alternatives to improve the material conditions for everyone.

Even if every tankie is completely wrong about the history regarding e.g. the soviet union and what is happening in china right now, why the strong emotional reaction to it? Every single person reacting that way is not impacted by it in any way or form no matter what is true. So they could just as much react by saying “if what you are saying is true, that would be pretty cool, but i don’t see the evidence for it” or even “the good doesn’t outweigh the bad in my opinion”.

Instead, every single time it is “china propaganda!!!” or “ah so you like that stalin killed all those people and let even more starve to death”. No honest discussion can ever happen that way and i seriously don’t understand it. Can’t we just discuss what might be good for society and what might be bad and talk about the validity of different kinds of sources and evidence without a strong emotional attachment to anything either way?

Imagine unironically thinking that women would rather stay at home, clean, cook and raise the kids instead of wanting to pursue a career in STEM is a good thing.

what about “restructure the police”or “reform the police”?