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tankies focus more on state-level political events
In other words, the authors have no idea what they're talking about. We're abstracting to the level of classes, not states. Maybe they focused on the intellectually deprived western Marxist discourse.
Cringe compilation:
Apparently you can measure how toxic comments are on a graph.
This says we are racist against almost every race besides Native Americans.
It says Vaush isn't leftist (true) but then calls his subreddit "far-left."
We gotta get prolewiki on there next.
Somebody’s worried. Let me know when a “left-wing extremist” shoots up a school or invades the capitol. All they did was give me a list of websites to visit.
Not just websites, we'll even recommend books for you to read! Truly, we are the greatest evil.
i'm thinking about their claim that "the predominant topic of discussion" among tankies is the uyghur "genocide." like bro there's 99 more percentiles of non-uyghur related topics. i see a post about xinjiang on here like once a month.
I have an idea about why they'd come to a weird conclusion like that:
A "hot" topic like that might have outsized participation. That is, a single post about the topic may have a huge number of comments compared to an every day post. They don't have methodology to differentiate between a rare-but-popular topic and an "every day" topic.
Just another example of how their poor methodology allows poor conclusions.
Tbh, I see more posts on here about the war in Ukraine than Xinjiang lately. We only ever talked about it because liberals were obsessed with creating a genocide narrative. Now that their short attention spans have moved on to the next act of dehumanization, why would we bother talking about something we know isn't real? The only reason we ever have to discuss half the mainstream topics about China is to deconstruct the myths around them.
Not that these "researchers" would know that.
Imagine a similar paper on the connection between white people and internet domains. Only instead referring to them as white people, the paper uses the term "cracker".
