The most virulent tankies are also the type most likely to decry “identity politics” distracting from class issues and suggest that the “leftist” thing to do is throw minorities to the wolves and court working class white men instead, while just kind of expecting everyone else to join in on a class-based solution that will definitely solve all their problems (since identity based barriers to quality of life are a neoliberal invention to divide the proletariat... or something like that).

Basically horseshoe theory exemplified; they’re often on par with LGBT+ issues with moderate conservatives, mostly tolerant but weakly accepting and not at all helpful. They might pretend they care about western homophobia but if they don’t intend to do anything about it does that count for anything?