I once had a vietnamese lady come over for a date and while cooking she found my copy of the little red book on the table and asked what it was about. I wasn't sure about her family's leanings given they left Vietnam, so I glossed over the Mao by mentioning that Ho was a wonderful pastry chef, and she got super happy and went on a long thing about how badass he was.
We now send each other communist memes every now and then. She says her family is apolitical and not anticommunist, that they just left because their area got fucked in the war, but otherwise they hate the USA.
Its amazing how little jump off points like talking of Ho's pastries, or Stalin and Mao's poetry end up making it really easy to broach the subject of communism with libs... just yesterday I started speaking positively about Mao with someone by pointing out a quote about taking care of your skin(we'd been talking about skincare routines), lol. Now that person is already talking about how she wishes Mao was alive again.
That's really cool, it's definitely a great feeling when you can connect with someone over leftist politics unexpectedly. Found out a few coworkers were surprisingly based/open to leftist ideas that way.
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I once had a vietnamese lady come over for a date and while cooking she found my copy of the little red book on the table and asked what it was about. I wasn't sure about her family's leanings given they left Vietnam, so I glossed over the Mao by mentioning that Ho was a wonderful pastry chef, and she got super happy and went on a long thing about how badass he was.
We now send each other communist memes every now and then. She says her family is apolitical and not anticommunist, that they just left because their area got fucked in the war, but otherwise they hate the USA.
Its amazing how little jump off points like talking of Ho's pastries, or Stalin and Mao's poetry end up making it really easy to broach the subject of communism with libs... just yesterday I started speaking positively about Mao with someone by pointing out a quote about taking care of your skin(we'd been talking about skincare routines), lol. Now that person is already talking about how she wishes Mao was alive again.
:uncle-ho-2: :mao-shining: :stalin-joking:
That's really cool, it's definitely a great feeling when you can connect with someone over leftist politics unexpectedly. Found out a few coworkers were surprisingly based/open to leftist ideas that way.