One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie. It's time for an explainer.

Aristotle: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Me too. I didn’t understand all the references because I don’t know the history. I read it twice, and still didn’t know who CLR James was, now I do. Sometimes it feels like I could read for months, and still not have a grasp of it all.