My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded “So we’ve been told.” She looks at me like I’m crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) “I’ve not seen any evidence of that.”
“Because they’re such a closed country!”
“Which means you have no evidence to your point either?”
“Well, missionaries… anyway!”
You’re good, no need to apologize! I’ll keep those responses in mind, though, because there are some people I’d like to turn left. Yeah, I just usually don’t bring up socialism because I know this is where it’d lead. I just felt like I should mention to her that I’m not just going to rot on the couch doing nothing, and that included bringing up the PSL. She did seem interested when I told her they did a lot of organizing in Minnesota.
Yeah, talking about being involved with an org is a totally appropriate thing to do, it’s her telling you that socialism is when dictator that’s not appropriate. It’s not like you’re particularly trying to radicalize her to begin with, you’re just talking about your own life.