Woe to the sort of ideological fragility that requires the things you support to appear completely, unassailably, virtuously perfect. That’s just not how real life works, almost ever. It’s not enough for tankies to critically support China over the USA in the context of opposition to American global hegemony, or merely to recognize that they’re the one nation state closest to being a vanguard for communism on the world stage in this postmodern era. It seems that tankies lack the critical sensibility required to synthesize strong support for something with the occasional, inevitable failings of that something. They act as if any and all criticisms are liberal CIA gotchas, they cannot navigate the issue gracefully enough to cede “Yes China did a bad thing and I support them anyway and here’s why”, they cannot strive for the nation they love to improve further. And ultimately this makes them incredibly brittle in a way that undermines both communism and China. It makes a mockery of both.
Woe to the sort of ideological fragility that requires the things you support to appear completely, unassailably, virtuously perfect. That’s just not how real life works, almost ever. It’s not enough for tankies to critically support China over the USA in the context of opposition to American global hegemony, or merely to recognize that they’re the one nation state closest to being a vanguard for communism on the world stage in this postmodern era. It seems that tankies lack the critical sensibility required to synthesize strong support for something with the occasional, inevitable failings of that something. They act as if any and all criticisms are liberal CIA gotchas, they cannot navigate the issue gracefully enough to cede “Yes China did a bad thing and I support them anyway and here’s why”, they cannot strive for the nation they love to improve further. And ultimately this makes them incredibly brittle in a way that undermines both communism and China. It makes a mockery of both.