Our manual inspection on the banners of these sub-reddits finds that they fit Peterson’s description of contemporary tankies (Petterson 2020)

Christ this is some slop

Im not one to normally nitpick spelling but ‘peterson’ and ‘petterson’ without later citing the work; they asume we know who it is. Ctrl+f ‘peterson’ and its not even in the references so we’re just meant to guess.

im assuming thats jordan peterson too, trash paper lmao

Edit:

Found it

Petterson, C. 2020. Apostles of Revolution? Marxism and Biblical Studies. Brill research perspectives in biblical interpretation, 4(1): 1–80.

Its not jordan peterson, source is the church.

Cited literally twice

Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories of analysis is lacking. This lack of clarity is compounded by the different strands and factions within Marxist politics, which have subtle resonances in biblical scholarship. These issues are canvassed in the first part of the article. The major focus of the article, however, is the collaboration between biblical studies and liberal ideology, which is examined in two ways. First, by presenting and discussing some of the central Marxist categories of analysis, namely history, ideology and class, and how these categories have been co-opted into biblical studies and in the process lost their radical edge. Second, by discussing the emergence of the discipline of biblical studies during the Enlightenment, and to what extent the containment strategies of biblical studies overlap with those of liberalism and capitalism

The stunning thing about this though is they reference the definition used here, but dont actually provide it. I’d need to go ahead and actually read it if I want to know. Im no longer an academic so dont have acsess to the free paper portals and im not paying 80 dollars to verify a 4 page slop piece. Its still up in the air if the person they are quoting even actually tried to define a ‘tankie’ or if the researcher is just pulling shit out of there ass.