TankieJerk

As a poc, for as long as I can remember, I find tankies to be extremely tone deaf as if they speak for people of colour who either have experience living in a communist state or living next to one. For example, I am originally from the Far East, and while I don’t agree with American military presence because they occasionally cause disruption to locals, it is simply out of geopolitical necessity and by explicit permission from the country to host American troops. Because guess why? Those of us from democratic countries are living next to Marxist-Leninist countries being threatening. China is trying to occupy an entire body of ocean and squatting within 200 nautical miles from Philippines’ internationally recognised legal territory. China is waterhosing both Filipino and Vietnamese fishermen, and then sending their own armed-to-the-teeth fishing vessels to monopolise fishing in the area. Japan is having a similar water territorial row with China. South Korea is living next to North Korea and I don’t need to elaborate their situations.