Tankie is a slur against Auth-Left. If you are Auth-Left well that's the slur people who don't like you are going to use.
This betrays a sense that the political compass is a valid way to view the world. It isn't. The political compass was created by a libertarian as explicit libertarian propaganda, and those guys are more deluded than the LibDems when it comes to political reality. Auth-Left, is uh, not a thing. Nor is Lib-Right. The entire point of socialism as a project and it's historical examples have been to extend the will of the working class; that's the opposite of what "Authoritarian" has come to represent in popular mind. You should ask other hexbears on the history of the political compass as propaganda though, as I can tell you that it's nothing except a propaganda tool, but I'm not personally educated enough on it's history to give you a good refutation.
Isn't the only thing wrong with the political compass is that the questionnaire lies? I don't think it has ever gotten me right as it seems to just shove you to one of the 4 corners where I would suspect most people would actually just circle around the center point. I don't see anything wrong with adding an extra axis to the political spectrum, even if the questionnaire is bollocks. No simplified model is going to show nuance because well. it's simplified.
:D you have no idea how happy it makes me to read that. Thank you so much for listening to my humble posting, this really is truely the best lenses I've had to view the world through and I'm so glad I was able to pique your interest!
Isn't the only thing wrong with the political compass is that the questionnaire lies?
Not just the questionnare, but the entire framing it uses is flawed and is meant to be used to draw reactionary stances and positions from. The ideology is coming from within the compass!!!
This betrays a sense that the political compass is a valid way to view the world. It isn't. The political compass was created by a libertarian as explicit libertarian propaganda, and those guys are more deluded than the LibDems when it comes to political reality. Auth-Left, is uh, not a thing. Nor is Lib-Right. The entire point of socialism as a project and it's historical examples have been to extend the will of the working class; that's the opposite of what "Authoritarian" has come to represent in popular mind. You should ask other hexbears on the history of the political compass as propaganda though, as I can tell you that it's nothing except a propaganda tool, but I'm not personally educated enough on it's history to give you a good refutation.
Well. it seems I have a lot of reading to do.
Isn't the only thing wrong with the political compass is that the questionnaire lies? I don't think it has ever gotten me right as it seems to just shove you to one of the 4 corners where I would suspect most people would actually just circle around the center point. I don't see anything wrong with adding an extra axis to the political spectrum, even if the questionnaire is bollocks. No simplified model is going to show nuance because well. it's simplified.
:D you have no idea how happy it makes me to read that. Thank you so much for listening to my humble posting, this really is truely the best lenses I've had to view the world through and I'm so glad I was able to pique your interest!
Not just the questionnare, but the entire framing it uses is flawed and is meant to be used to draw reactionary stances and positions from. The ideology is coming from within the compass!!!
I've been advised by comrades that this is a good refutation which goes over everything I could possibly hope.