[Transcript]

Reading the comments, it really does feel that most tankies are demagogues and roleplayers.

Most of them are larpers, yeah. Majority are white rich middle-aged men or teenagers with too much money.

It’s weird, huh? I would have expected them to be people hanging by a thread, with nothing to lose, homeless or nearly there…but tankies seem to be angrier than these examples of people and seem to tend to be better off than average. 🙃

It’s usually caused by guilt and shame of being rich. But refusing to give up their riches.

I mean, their most well-known online figurehead is Hasan, who lives in a mansion and dresses in thousand-dollar clothing and wears expensive jewellery

Copying what I wrote in this thread:

For anybody wondering why anticommunists would spew fatuous bullshit like this, I’ll explain:

The reason that anticommunists accused us and continue to accuse us of being upper-class hypocrites is that it makes them look like the good guys. Most of them do not want the vile stigma that comes with hating the proletariat, thus they make up this brainless stereotype that we’re rich, and therefore an attack on us is not an attack on the proletariat at all.

It is not as though anticommunists reach these conclusions by carefully surveying communist parties, strikers, or antifascist activists. It’s a stereotype that anticommunists make up.

How do you attack Black Lives Matter without looking like a white supremacist? Easy, you pretend that Black Lives Matter is the whitest movement of all time and ignore all evidence to the contrary. Here’s another one: feminism? All feminists are men, so bashing feminism isn’t misogynist. Or how about my favorite: Jewish anti-Zionists? All anti-Zionist Jews are gentiles. Boom, now you can attack them and not care about their explanations on why Zionism is unhealthy for Jews. Enjoy!